Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.

I grew up in a small town where everybody knew everybody. The kids in your first grade class end up being the same

30 classmates in your second grade, third grade, fourth, and so on, all the way to

high school graduation unless you or they move out of town.

Problem is, if you make an enemy in first grade, you pretty much make an enemy for life,

and that includes their entire posse who can make your life miserable.

It's unfortunate how one individual can cast a dark veil over a big chunk of your childhood memories.

There's an old saying that if you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in the room.

There are also 7.5 billion people in the world, and yet we often let one person ruin our day. History has proven

that one person can make an everlasting impression for billions of others. The Buddha,

Jesus, but it doesn't have to be so grand.

One person can also deeply affect a single life when they give you a second chance, for

example, or when they are there for you in your time of need.

But how can we, seemingly small mosquitoes, possibly affect social change?

I found out in the most roundabout way in my 20s when I had multiple jobs including a 9-to-5

Monday through Friday corporate gig another job in the evenings and a third job on the

weekends one day after a year of working at the law firm,

the partners decided all paralegals and secretaries

needed to rotate working on weekends.

One of the reasons I originally took the job was because it offered weekends off.

So when we were each suddenly asked to pick a weekend that works best for us to cover at

the firm, I refused to play along.

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