This morning I was thinking, how wonderful it must be to be a famous person that's admired, appreciated, and respected. Julie Andrews comes to mind because I've been watching some of her interviews on various talk shows throughout her career on my favorite channel "You Tube." Dame Julie Andrews is my all time favorite performer. This woman has it all, beauty, an ebullient personality, charisma, elegance, an extraordinary talent for acting, dancing, singing, and writing.....she's adored all over the world. Despite all her successes she comes across so down to earth, kind, and grounded. Just the other day students at an Alabama school received a personally written letter from legendary Julie Andrews encouraging them to go on with the production of "Mary Poppins" despite the death of their director Mr Fine who passed away from Covid. The students were discouraged and sad to go on with the show but somehow one of the parents was able to contact Julie Andrews who in turn sent a letter to the students. This is what it said:
A little bird told me that you have been working on a special benefit production of Mary Poppins. Great! I'm sending you warmest wishes for success! Do it in honor of Mr. Fine. He must have been a really nice guy.
How amazing it is to be someone as awesome and incredible as Julie Andrews. She's a superstar! But in a world of 7 1/2 billion humans, not everyone gets to lead a magnificent life. There are those that are living from paycheck to paycheck, perhaps even homeless, there are those that work so hard each and everyday but yet get not an ounce of recognition from their bosses or peers. Yes, we're told in society not to complain or have self pity but sometimes it does hurt to get unnoticed. In my case, I'm getting tiered of being a doormat. I haven't owned a car in 20 years but my friend talked me into getting a used car and guess who drives the car all the time? You guessed it, he does, and I'm the one making most of the car payments and taking the city bus to work and back. At work, two of the other supervisors make more money than I do but guess who goes the extra work without any recognition? It's me of course. What hurts the most is I'm the only one who mops the floor in the office and yesterday the store director criticized me personally for the floor being dirty and to clean it up immediately. I only supervise once a week, why weren't the other supervisors mopping the floor?
My mother has Alzherimer's and these last few years I always went out of my way to ease the responsibilities of some of her caregivers, but do you think my brother whose in charge of my mother's care ever noticed? No, instead he complains that I'm a nuisance and the only reason I'm even allowed to visit my mother now at the condo is because she is after all my mother but the caregivers get all the affection and warmth from my brother while I'm once again the doormat.
Do you ever feel like you've been put on this earth to just be a servant to others? There's nothing wrong with helping others and going the extra yard to try to help make the world a better place, but after awhile it does hurt to always be the forgotten one, who seems so insignificant and useless while other people get appreciation, attention, admiration, love, and praises. What do you think?
Moments of "Never Getting Appreciation" certainly do hurt at times!
