Everybody deserves to be somebody
The reception clerk in a posh hotel looked down at a small man who had just asked for a room. The customer looked so unimpressive that the clerk told him immediately that no rooms were available. About that time the hotel manager came out of his office to the desk, recognised the man and called the clerk aside. He whispered to her that the man asking the room was Pierre Monteaux, who, for many years, was the distinguished conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
The clerk came back to the desk, apologised, and said, "Why, of course, sir, we can take care of you! Why didn't you tell me you were somebody, Mr Monteaux?"
Whereupon Maestro Monteaux emphatically told the clerk, "Madam, everybody is somebody." And he quickly turned to leave the hotel.
Never be afraid to help others in their time of need, nor ever treat others with scorn; whoever they be. You never know when you may need that shoulder to lean on. It is said, "Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal." Yes, everybody is somebody because each one is a masterpiece of God, moreover, a child of God. Everyone deserves respect.
Too many of us, in our daily life, fall into the shameful pattern of ranking people especially by their looks, and judging someone as nobodies! Let us treat people the way we want to be treated, and talk to people the way we want to be talked to. Likewise, let us all try to be somebody who makes everybody feel like somebody!
