"To be perfectly satisfied to let your light shine wherever you may go without ever looking back to see if there were results or not, is the mark of a great soul," Christian D. Larson.
We make a difference in life, whether we are aware of it or not; and that can be a positive difference or a negative one. Long ago when preparing to relocate, a colleague said she would miss my energy. That was a new way of thinking, and it was good feedback to see how another person sees me in the world. Yesterday at a large warehouse store a tiny child came up and grabbed my pant leg while I was standing and scanning the produce section. I bent and chatted with her, 2 years old she said, --- I was concerned that she seemed to be unsupervised and wanted to engage her until her family arrived. After a brief time, her grandmother arrived. Any one of us can make a difference in someone's else's life. I was a safe person with whom the 2-year old could interact until her family found her. Perhaps she intuited that.
As dementia caregivers we also make a difference in the world: to the person for whom we provide care, to the world who sees how we interact with the person for whom we provide care, to the clerks and other service providers in how we treat them as we do transactions.
Consider that it is true that you make a difference in the world. Consider that it is important for you to make a conscious intention whether that difference be a positive or a negative difference. In this case, I think it is impossible to have a negligible effect: we either have a positive or a negative effect on our world. It can be a conscious choice to leave any environment better for having been there.
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