Short Story: Your role in life. An American Indian chief's view

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The old American Indian chief, Little Big Ant, was talking to his son, about a person's role in life. He said: "While each of us has their own personal mission, and purpose, to fulfil in our lives, each of us is also involved in the missions, and purposes, of others around us too." "We should help others in their life, as well as allow others to help us in our lives too." "To put this simply, we should help each other to fill each other's plates, with what is needed by that person in their lives." "Our light, shone onto another, can help to penetrate any barrier within someone else." "We should respect others, and not intervene in their lives, just for the sake of intervening. We should have purpose in all that we do." "We should try to connect to our inner God-given gifts to realise our potential, and to earn our straps here." "Everything existing has its reason for existing, including you too." "Life is greater than the life of the individual, but the individual must add their life to life, rather than trying to take life from life, to only sustain their own greed. Life is a shared experience." "We possess everything within ourselves that we need to live our lives, but this comes out of us only when we share our lives with others, while living for ourselves too." "The truth can take many words, or very few, to elucidate, as it depends on the listener, how many we need to use. Always share your truth with others, and encourage them to share their truths with you too." "One finger can lift a pebble, but it takes many hands to lift a large rock." "Life must not be lived on its own in you, but must be stretched out of you towards others, and it is the love in you that can do this for you best. Otherwise, life is just a shadow of what it could be in you." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com "Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass, and loses itself in the sunset.” A saying of the Blackfoot American Indian tribe.