There is a certain beauty in having pride in your work, and having the ability to see it through, even when things go badly.

My brother-in-lawand his wife recently had a baby, and we were going to go see them, but the hospital had a rule about kids under 11 not allowed in to see the baby.

So I stayed home and watched the kids while my wife went.  When she got back, I expected to hear a story about how cute the baby was, but instead she told me how impressed she was with the security guard.

Apparently, he was friendly towards people who were asking him questions, and instead of being stoic and reserved, he was open and helpful… even though directing people wasn’t part of his job.  My wife said he helped her by explaining where to find the room she was looking for and was all around courteous.

I bring this to light because lately I’ve become a fan of people who do their job very well.  In the security guard’s case, he was helping people in ways that wasn’t even really his job!

I would even go so far as to say that there is something to be admired when a person that is doing a simple or unglamorous job extremely well!  I know a girl (literally a girl), that works at an taco bell drive thru that shows these characteristics.  Whenever you drive through, her entire face lights up and she become such a positive force, you can’t really leave not feeling better about the entire day.  Most teenagers cope an attitude and are stoic if not rude, so seeing such a person as the Taco Bell girl is like find a $100 bill in the parking lot.

People like the 2 examples above are amazing!

The attached video is another great example of a small girl doing her job/task extremely well.  The girl singing does such a great job singing the national anthem, that even though the speaker system give out, she continues.  Amazingly, people join in on the song to complete it!  I think they join in to support the girl because she was doing such an amazing job that it touched them!

Ironically, after the speaker system goes out 1 person does laugh at first, so maybe the others people singing tried to counteract the one rude persons laugh.  It’s amazing how some people when in the presence of beauty, only find defects to point out…  I feel sad for them…

-MR

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