I See You!

I See You!

By Allen Merritt ©2018

One of the radio shows I listen to while in the car tooling around has a segment where the show personalities look for individuals in the news who've went the extra mile, demonstrated compassion and desire to help and who offered any kind of positive contribution toward assisting others in need. These are simple observations about every day people helping whenever they can and are able. Their willingness to engage and participate is amazing and the radio wants to recognize some of them by letting the world know they see them, appreciate them and acknowledge them.

The hosts share the stories and at the end of each one they shout out, “I see you!”

It’s a great way to concede how there are good people out there and how great things are happening. Nothing is ordinary, only extraordinary.

It takes a certain level of consciousness as well as conscientiousness to notice and speak up about such activities.  Since I am all over the place doing all kinds of things my sense of awareness is pretty keen, but also discombobulated and distracted. I guess I would say I notice a lot of things going on around me, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out I miss a lot of things, too. There is only so much we can take in. This makes sense with the overwhelming amount of stimuli we have to contend with just to make it through a single day.

Overall, I feel pretty good about my observatory skills.

This week I ran around like the proverbial chicken with the head cut off attending to conference needs and helping speakers get it together prior to their presentation. My observatory skills discovered many things out of place and I would catch them in a timely manner to correct them and aide in what appeared to be a smooth operation. In fact, it was more like a recovery!

Getting in there and helping the day go as smoothly as possible is the name of the game. No time for whining and complaining. Just get in there and do whatever you can to the best of your ability to work it all out.  This is exactly what I did.

One speaker forgot her PowerPoint and I found a way to have it emailed to me, ran to a computer where I could access internet, download the file onto a thumb drive and then literally ran back to the conference room just in time for her to go on and uploaded to the laptop, pulled it up and off she went giving her talk.  

In another moment, the laptop died at the podium in the middle of a speakers talk. Turns out it was unplugged and the battery died. I plugged it in and got it to start up again so the next speaker could take the ball and run with it. These were a couple of examples of my week which culminated in several of similar events.

The reason I share these events is because later in the conference week two individuals approached me in the hallways and publicly acknowledged me for the aide I provided. They wanted to offer their gratitude. They were in essence saying, “I see you!”

I smiled and graciously accepted their thanks and took a moment to appreciate it and take it in as a positive for the day.

My next question beyond seeing and observing has to do with are we accepting and embracing such kindness given to us by others? Are we returning the same in kind?  Moreover, are we noticing these things in ourselves? Are we comfortable sharing with others what good we see in them? Can we find moments to say, “I see you!” to someone today and every day?

I think it is important to give ourselves and others a boost in spirit. It's uplifting!

It may take practice, but practice helps lead us to perfect practice.

“I see you” says I see what you are doing. I see who you are. I see your love and compassion. I see your hard work. Our observation is a small reward. It is a gift we offer.

“I see myself” is as important as what we see in others.

Let’s be a mirror of ourselves to the world and make notice whenever we see good taking place. Give a shout out.

“I See You!”

“I See ME!”

“Thanks for all you do!”

Let’s not be afraid to verbalize such moments as we journey along living life positively.

Have a great week noticing the wonders of the world.

Cheers!