Suzie, you said 'feeling non productive doesn't help the self esteem'..i have often felt the same way... but you'll notice the message of being
...'a failure' 'not good enough', is constantly sent throughout our societies... 'oh, just a wife and mother','oh, just a clerk'..and it goes up the ladder .. the nurse isn't a doctor, the doctor 'just a MD' not a specialist....the teacher not 'a principal'..the business has only one store..etc.... Most people are tremendously successful and in ten thousand ways, but the reverse is drummed into us.

Each act of kindness, is the true mark of success..(in my opinion) and more productive than will ever be appreciated in this world.

[ January 19, 2006, 12:20 AM: Message edited by: norma ]