When perusing the June issue of The Costco Connection, something that best selling novelist Brad Meltzer said resonated with me. This was when the 40-year old writer talked about his first non-fiction book “Heroes for My Son”, a booked that he meant to use to convey to his new-born son the importance of humility, sacrifice, perseverance, passion and integrity (click here to read the complete article).
While the famous, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and George Washington, are in the book, he was not just looking at the famous or the brave ones. In fact, he included in the book people from his life, such as his grandfather, Ben Rubin and his mother, Teri Meltzer. As he puts, “look around at any life and you’ll find examples of charity and honesty, leadership and humility, tenacity and dignity”. I really liked it when he said “there is greatness in everyone and all you have to do is find what you love to do and share that”.
I am not certain whether it explains why a Columbia Law School graduate makes a living by writing, he sure is living his words by having developed a nonprofit organization called Ordinary People Change the World. Like Meltzer said, “we can all be heroes if we persist in doing what we know is right” and “that’s the power we all have”.
Now, the question to you is: what are the greatnesses that you saw around you today? Let’s share. We can all use some ideas. “Together, we are stronger”, as I say. (smile)
