A DIAMOND—-SHORT STORY
A diamond doesn’t sparkle when it’s buried. It just looks like another piece of carbon, dark, rough and ordinary.
When pulled out, placed in the right hands, polished, and set under the lights, it shines. Not because it suddenly became valuable, but because it is finally in the right place to show what it always was.
This is a lot like us. Sometimes we feel invisible, overlooked or not good enough.
It is not because we don’t have talent or value, but because we are in an environment that can’t see it.
We may be measured against the wrong standards or be surrounded by people who don’t recognize us.
We might be in a soil that doesn’t help us grow. Improvement matters, and so does alignment with the right environment, the right people and with the right purpose. So if feeling stuck or unseen, let’s not rush to doubt ourselves.
Remember that a diamond in the earth is still a diamond. We are not worthless. We are just be misplaced.