Others Told Me  

Others told me what I could not do.
"These are your limits,"
They would say,
"Expect to achieve this,
But not this;
You are really very ordinary."
But you never told me what I could not do.
You expected me to dream dreams
And follow them across the rainbow,
But you never told me
What those dreams would be.
Sure enough, I have dreamed many dreams
And I have followed them
Along paths soft and rocky;
I discover new dreams every day,
And I have also discovered myself.
I really am very ordinary,
But I am extraordinarily ordinary
Because of you!

"This is the gift of a teacher--to revere the ordinary so much that it becomes extraordinarily ordinary." 

From Teaching From the Heart, by Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore

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