Patric J. Dufficy: Dealers in Hope

I’ve always been intrigued by the difference of the value of  Thanksgiving  in Canada and the US.
Of course I cannot speak for the all Canadian outside the province of Quebec, but here, Thanksgiving is only a holiday like another, a day out of work, and I think it’s kind of sad when I see how our US neighbors care for this holiday compared to us… It’s almost equivalent and even surpasses Christmas in some way.

Why do we attach less importance to this day here?
I personally think it is because of our… How can I say this… Our lack of belief in what God is doing for us every day of our life, even in our darkest days.

But sometimes I was thinking: “What was there before the big bang, before the universe was created?” For those who don’t know me personally, I could be seen like a huge believer in God. Not at all, let me explain!
Since I stopped going to church at around 14 years old, and before that I was going because my parents forced me to. So since ever, I’ve considered myself as a non-believer in any greater spiritual power. My belief was that the universe was created with a big bang, and then the galaxies, suns, and planets were created, and then life appeared out of a primordial soup of complex molecules in our oceans.

In any case, something happened in my life, a turning point, a new path as I explained yesterday, and several things and believes are beginning to change.
DON’T RUN! I’m not going to talk about some sort of cult or religion, I am only talking about “FAITH”.
I’m talking about having faith in me, in other people, faith in things that I cannot see with your own eyes.

Ok, let’s go back to Thanksgiving. 🙂
Even as a non-believer, I was surprised to hear American’s “God Bless…” I never heard this here.

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Hi there, I’ll begin this blog with entries mainly about my journey on the road to become a leader that people will be attracted to.

What are the reasons why one would want to face all the struggles to become a significant person?

One thing I learned from my mentors is, when you look at the writings on a tombstone, what’s predominant? The birth and death dates and maybe a quote. But the thing is… The most important mark on a tombstone is the little dash between the birth and death dates. In this short horizontal line, you find the entire life of this person, all the experiences, the joys, the sadness, the first steps and first words spoken, the struggles of growing into an adult, the first job, children, grandchildren, voyages, and one million other things… All this in this little dash!

So what do you want your friends and family to say the day of your memorial?
Do you want them to tell how they had so much fun partying with you and how they laugh so loud when you destroyed the neighbor pool with the garden tractor after you drank a bit too much?
Or what about if they tell how you helped so many people, how you lived a special life, how you were different from everybody by doing great things the majority of the world will never do?

Do you want to have a life that counts and be remembered by all the persons that you had a great influence in their lives?
That’s what I want for me, and that’s the journey I’m in.

*Thanks for reading, Patric J. Dufficy

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