BEING A SHOEMAKER, MAKING YOUR OWN
SHOES TO FILL
I Know we have all at one point in our lives heard the phrase, ‘You have big shoes to fill’. It is often told to us sometimes by our dear parents, teachers, colleagues or friends whenever someone close to us especially an elder who performed exceptionally well in school, graduated with high honors in school, got the best employment with high earning income and married filthy rich. They all without any doubt expect you to fit into the legacy’s big shoes, terming that it should come easy for you since the law of nature and nurture is on your side and an emulation or a better achievement than the legacy is expected. Literally having to fill big shoes entails growth; physically, emotionally and cognitively but in the direction as created by the legacy.
However, we always forget that each individual has their own
unique personality that characterizes their character. Even introverts aren’t the
same as there are some l term ‘loud introverts’ and others ‘silent
introverts’…anyways that’s a discussion for another day. Ones unique
personality will characterize the way they will go about their day to day life.
Which explains how one will take a particular route to achieve a goal and
another may take a different route to achieve the same goal…the end justifying
the means.
A shoemaker has the ability to make and repair shoes…whether
it’s at some corner in the streets or in some fancy building designing Dolce
& Gabbana shoes. Their aim being a form of perfection on the shoes is
achieved…paying attention to detail, craftsmanship and quality. As Ayn Rand
says in her book the Fountainhead, ‘A building is alive, like a man. Its
integrity is to follow its own truth, its one single theme and to serve its own
single purpose.’ We are all unique so just as a shoemaker, lets create our own
shoes, expand them when need be, mend them when there is an indication of
damage, clean and polish them when they get dirty to get them shiner than
before. Why not be a shoemaker and be
the creator of your own destiny by making your own shoes to fill.
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