If we think about our place on this Earth too long and hard, we can talk ourselves into believing that we are but insignificant creatures just plodding along. And we would be pulling the wool over our own eyes.
Giants among us
We point to people like Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, Edison, Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, perhaps The Beatles and others, as people who have touched humanity in such a way as to alter its course or reshape it. Each of us could name those “giants” throughout history who have influenced humankind’s thinking, behavior or belief system.
If we zeroed in on our own minuscule corner of the world, we might be able to think of an individual – a teacher, minister, doctor, athlete – who was (is) a force of nature in our own lives. We just might consider this person, while perhaps not recognizable on a global scale, to be a “giant” in our own lives.
Dad vs. LeBron