Relevance

I was talking to a friend recently about her manager. A woman in her late forties, divorced, alone and plodding along in a irrelevant job in a small suburban store. The woman had a volatile temper, and would easily become distressed and upset at minor trifling things...rather mousy and easily dismissed...yet my friend told me, that same woman had once been glamorous, beautiful and powerful...for a period as long as twenty years she had been the buyer for a luxurious department store, and had teams of people attending to her beck and call. She was the woman that others wanted to emulate, that was admired and that was forever and always jetting around to Milan or the latest shows in Paris. It is sad, how carelessly and callously the world tosses to one side people who it deems to be no longer relevant. As a friend is fond of saying the new waves pushes forward the old waves and takes their place. So it is with everything in life, unless you are happy to be forgotten, to be left behind, you must use your efforts towards something meaningful.