“Don’t think too highly of yourself,” her mother said, “you are just an employee completing everyday tasks for a company.”

Those words would never leave her brain, even though what she’s doing at the company is, indeed, very important to the company’s everyday operations, Without her contribution, other people would not be able to fulfill other important tasks. She’s wrong, she would frequently tell herself, you are not just an employee, you are a piece in a mega-puzzle, you are a piece that’s helping the company succeed.

When her mother forcibly dragged her away from work to go to Berlin for 2 weeks, she was furious and couldn’t enjoy a second of it.”I told you I can’t go,” she explained, “what part of no one knows how to do my job don’t you understand?” Her mother bought the airplane tickets and booked the hotel anyway.

Now, as she scrolled through the gallery on her phone, she found a picture she took of a mural. “Many small people who are in many places do many small things that can alter the face of the world,” it read. That’s what I am, she thought, a small person doing small things, changing the world one day at a time.

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