Impressions We Leave
July 6, 2021
The impressions we leave unconsciously, may be take away lessons to an observer of an event. They may influence the viewer for a lifetime and we may never know it.
In the late sixties my parents drove from Brooklyn, New York to Telz Yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio to see me. My roomate witnessed their special love and caring interaction throughout their visit.
After Beis Medrish we both moved on in life, lost contact, got married, raised families and had grandchildren. Then one day, fifty years later my roomate happened to meet me by chance at a wedding. We reminisced, and then during our conversation he reminded me of the impression my parents had left upon him fifty years earlier .
He told me “I don’t know if you realize, but your parents were very devoted to you. You were very special in their eyes.
Did you ever hear of the organization, Priority One? That’s what you were to them”. His words touched my heart deeply.
I couldn’t believe what my ears were hearing.
It’s to marvel how their short visit had such an influence on a young teenage boy, who was just observing from afar a parents interaction with their son. My old friend still remembered them now, although a span of fifty years had passed. They stood out in his mind and left an everlasting impression on him that he never forgot, although he had been through tens of thousands of experiences since then. Wow.
This is the kind of impression we can leave on people young and old through our exalted actions and words, that can last a lifetime.
Was thinking, how careful we must be in all our interactions with people. You never know who’s watching or listening. The impressions we leave may impact a life forever.
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