When you get right down to it, there are really only two types of people in this world, those who build bridges and those who do not. Are you a bridge builder? You very well may be and not even know it.
Bridge builders are team players and go out of their way to render support and encouragement to people they meet along the road of life. They truly understand the power of a well-timed kind word and the importance of sincere appreciation.
Bridge builders make outstanding mentors because of their eagerness to share and nurture. They are terrific role models and leaders in every sense of the word. Bridge builders unselfishly invest their time and energy helping others to reach their full potential. Bridge builders are always quick to praise people who have mentored them on their journey. They are extremely grateful that someone recognized their talent and helped them develop their potential.
Bridge builders help others not for personal gain or credit, but simply because it is the right thing to do. They do not build bridges for the sake of mere recognition; they build because it is in their very nature to do so. Bridge builders care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe and expect more than others believe is possible!
If you are a bridge builder congratulations, the world is a much better place because of the difference you make in the lives of others. How many bridges have you built lately?
The Bridge Builder
An old man going a lone highway,
came at the evening cold and gray,
to a chasm vast and deep and wide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear 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 your strength with
building here; your journey will end
with the ending day. You never again
will pass this way. You have crossed the
chasm, deep and wide, why build a bridge at evening tide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head;
"Good friend in the path I have come",
he said, "there followed after me today
a youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as 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!"
- Will Allen Dromgoole
