Hi I'm Susie Krabacher. Thank you for joining me. I want to talk today about Humble Heroes.
I bet that most of you have a Humble Hero
hiding in you
It's not an easy role.
Most people we consider heroes probably
wouldn't consider themselves as heroes.
A lot of people ask me, why I left my
life in Aspen
to go help hungry starving poor children
in Haiti.
It wasn't a choice for me to do something
that I thought would change the world. it was in me all already
I didn't wake up one day and just decide
I want to be a hero.
I don't think of myself that way.
I see people everyday and I think
what makes them do the things they do
How do they have the courage.
Last week, I had a terrible week.
One of the children at the orphanage passed away.
A friend of mine attempted suicide.
I was in a space where I didn't think
I could get myself out of bed.
I wanted someone, anyone to talk to.
I still had to get up that morning
and think about the 5200 children
in Haiti that I need to take care of today.
That day I didn't have it.
I didn't have the courage. I didn't have the drive. I didn't have the strength.
If I had 25 years ago when I started this
If I had someone that I could pick up the phone and call, ask advice
to encourage me. Especially on the hard days.
What would I have done different
How would I have edited my story.
Each one of us, everyday are writing our fairwell speech.
and you don't get to go back and edit yesterday. You can edit today.
and tomorrow.
I want to do that with you.
I want us together, to go on a journey
that helps you be the person that
does have an incredible impact
on this planet. On this earth while you're here.
we only get that one chance.
I think there is a vacuum of humble heroes.
If the world needs anything right now
it is heroes.
There is a lot of sadness. There is a lot of doubt.
There's a lot of discouragement.We have so many
days when we wake up and
we turn on the news and its awful. Then we also have
what's going on in our lives. When I get up in the morning and think about
what am I going to do to encourage
the people who are on the ground everyday doing that.
Haiti is a very dark place
to work,
We have a lot of influences of poverty
of spiritual darkness,
we encounter death a lot.
We chose to take care of children who are
terminally ill.
So there is no way you can prepare yourself
to be that kind of hero.
We have a child in our orphanage die every year.
We've buried at least 400 children in the 25 years that I've done this.
What does it take to keep going on?
There isn't a way to advise you on that
Every day, I get up and I do it.
I usually pray. I have a faith.
I have something deep inside me, and I believe
i the invisible, and I believe
that there is something there that guides me, that helps me.
that gives me the courage I need to do this.
Last week was a horrible week.
I knew when I got the phone call that one of the children
had passed away, that the first thing I had to do was
pick out the small shoes,
Pick out the tiny casket, to write the letter that goes in every single coffin of a child that dies with us.
In this world, you were loved.
It hurts and it never gets better.
Every time that i do it, I know
that I've done the very best I can.
to make someone in my world
that meant something to me, feel loved.
when we go to the grocery store,
I've become more aware
There's a lot of wealth in Aspen,
people are in a hurry,
we have lots to do, we're on our cell phones.
I'm guilty of this too.
I decided to pay attention
to people in a way that they know
that they are noticed. I love it
when someone says my name.
Notices that I'm there.
I'm a hugger.
I love when people
how are you doing Susie, and I love to get that hug every day.
My very dear friend, who I know very well,
had suicidal thoughts.
Those are the moments that we
can be the Humble Hero.
The landscape is just littered with people who
said that they were going to do something
great and they didn't.
I think that is because of the battlefield of our minds.
So often we
we get afraid
We think that we can't, and that it won't matter anyway.
I don't want my departure speech to be
Oh I wish I could have
I know that I should have
Or, I'm sorry that I didn't
I don't think it's possible to be
perfect in anyway.
A lot of times we don't do what we could do because
we are afraid.
I was afraid the first time I went to Haiti.
I was a nervous wreck that I would make a fool
of myself thinking I could go and help thees people
I had no money. I didn't have an education
I had no idea what I was going to do, but
when I got there, and I saw
that you want to do good, you want to help
It's not the savoir syndrome that I
so often see that actually does make a change
in the world. A lot of times the motives aren't
the right motives
we don't follow through with what we could do
If you decided you were going to do something that
you long had a passion to do that would change the world. Do you have a plan?
What is the worst thing that could happen if you did
That is a good question.
The worst thing that could happen for me, was to lose children that I
came to love.
There was no way to plan for that.
When you get an idea, don't let your mind
go to the place where it's not going to matter anyway
what am I doing, am I going to make a fool of myself because
I had the courage to go and do it. Do it anyway.
Nobody is going to remember if you fail.
They are going to remember what you did. Expecially
if you did it for them
I want you to feel that
there is somebody out there that you can talk to that
you can write to that you can get encouragement from
you are not alone and you cant do it alone.
when I started I wanted to badly to have
someone that I could talk to, or get advice from
or have a group of people that had the same
motives and dreams as I did
of really making a change in this world
feel like you can do that with us. Come to us
with questions. Give me ideas of your struggle
I want to help you and we can do this together
so if you like this blog, please subscribe
lets do this together
I want to know your comments, whats on your mind and I want to know what concerns you
what are you afraid to try
Lets talk. Thank you so much.
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