Fixing, Helping and Serving

Kevin Teo

September 19, 2009

An insightful poem shared by Leng Lim at a recent Volans Talent engagement between PricewaterhouseCoopers and Hagar.

 

Fixing, Helping and Serving

A Fixer has the illusion of being casual.
A server knows he or she is being used
in the service of something greater, essentially unknown.

We fix something specific.
We serve always the something:
wholeness and the mystery of lie.

Fixing and helping are the work of the ego.
Serving is the work of the soul.

When you help, you see life as weak.
When you fix you see life as broken.
When you serve you see life as whole.

Fixing and helping may cure,
Service heals.

When I help, I feel satisfaction.
When I serve, I feel gratitude.

Fixing is a form of judgment.
Serving is a form of connection.