The secret formula for happiness:
Make other people happy.
It’s about others.
Motivate other people.
It’s about others.
Will Allen Dromgoole figured this out years ago.
She lived from 1860 – 1934 and wrote over
7,500 poems. Here’s the one she’s most famous for . . .
THE BRIDGE BUILDER
An old man, going down a lone highway,
Came in the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and wide and steep
With waters rolling cold and deep.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim
That swollen stream held no fears for him
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting strength with building here.
Your journey will end with the ending day
You never again must pass this way
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide --
Why build you this bridge at the eventide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head.
"In the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today,
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him."
Remember: It’s about others . . .
Rob Gilbert
