But, first let me dwell on that statement. You don’t have to have sympathy to be a nurse, and all nurses don’t have sympathy. You can use Focus to be the director of a non-profit, as a client of mine does, or to be an engineer, as someone surely is. Your strengths can be applied quite successfully to a number of unique occupations. So this gifted little boy could end up being happy doing any number of things.
Now back to this little boy I meet today. I was keeping my two-year-old grandson, James, for the afternoon. We strolled outside on this gorgeous, sunny day and the boys playing down the street caught his attention. Allen, 18, and Kevin, 13, were shooting baskets. Around them was Alex, eight years old, playing with his new mini-skateboard.
James tried to grab the skateboard and yelled “ball” and they were nice to him, tossing him the ball once or twice, and letting him have the skateboard for a couple moments. Nobody was talking; they were all just playing. Alex was the quietest, just doing his thing over to the side with his mini-skateboard.
At one point James drifted over to dig in the neighbor’s garden, and Alex said, “Mary’s not going to like that,” Mary, being the neighbor woman’s name. “She turned my mother in for watering on the wrong day.”
Naptime beckoned, and as we were getting ready to head home, Alex came over to me and beamed. “That kid’s like a cat,” he said. “He likes round things that go around.”
