Regrets or Lessons Learned
Illumination
“Who told you that you can’t do it?” Molly asked her co-worker of six months.
Paige stared at her with sad eyes and said, “My parents, brothers, and sisters, other family members, friends,” shrugging her shoulders. “Everyone.”
What about you? What do you want to do?” Molly asked taking Paige’s hands from across the lunch table in the cafeteria.
“I don’t know. What do you think?”
“I think you should go ahead and try it,” Molly encouraged.
“What if I fail?”
“Then you will learn a valuable lesson that will make you stronger.”
“I don’t know Molly, what if . . . .?
Molly cut her off, “if you don’t try, you already failed, then you will be left with lots of regrets. Regrets or lessons learned. Choose your dish?”
One month later Paige came to her cubicle with a large gift-wrapped box, smiling as if she won the lottery. Molly didn’t have to ask what the box or the smile meant. Easing back out of her chair she said, “You won?”
Paige nodded, “No, it wasn’t a contest. I wanted a loan to start my own jewelry business.”
Confused, Molly asked, “what happened?”
“I didn’t get the loan, but I got an investor, a building to continue my art and design, and a shop to go with it. How did you know?”
“I didn’t know. I overheard you talking to your family about not doing something and I know that a trial will beat all failures.”
“I want you as my first employee.”
These words wiped the confusion off Molly’s face and the smile enlightened the small room.
“Why me?” Molly asked knowing Paige’s huge family.
“You had more confidence in me than all of the people who knew me. Yet, you hardly know me.”
Molly nodded and said, “I just couldn’t allow you to give up.”
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