It’s a sad thing when people become nothing more than monetary opportunities. When people forget how to breath and live in the moment. When you forget about the basics.

A few months back I went to a dentist. I finally bit the bullet and grew some courage and went along to get my teeth sorted. It’s been a long process. I stopped my wild lifestyle, I settled down and had a baby and I changed my social circle. I knew my teeth were in a bad way and I had to get something done about it. So I went along to a dentist and had a sit down and a check up and he was the most rudest person I have met in a long time. He belittled me and made me feel like I wasn’t intelligent enough to know what was going on. Then the financial aspect of it all and telling me he’d remove most of my teeth because I couldn’t afford to get everything done that was needed.  I walked away devastated and saddened by it all. Saddened that I had been made to feel inferior because I wasn’t in a financial bracket to afford dental care. Here it is very expensive.

I then sat on it for a while and had a good think and during that time I acquired yet another toothache. I decided to try another dentist and man am I glad I did. Unlike this other obnoxious prat, my new dentist has been wonderful. She has saved all of my teeth and reconstructed a couple, and generally I am feeling 100% better and I still have all of my teeth, including the ones the previous dentist told me were unsavable. She charges me half the price that the previous dentist quoted and with better results.She talks to me like a person and empowers me to make changes. She gives alot of her time, she doesn’t usher me out of the door like a number, she spends quality time covering all aspects not just the basics. I go back each and every time because of it.

The difference between the two is the first guy is all about money. The surgery is perfect and contemporary and everyone walks around like they are in the middle of an advertisment. All the equipment is top class. It’s impressive.

My dentist, she doesn’t have all the flash fandangled equipment, she has one surgery, no mod con computer equipment and well she looks like my granny hehe. She gives hugs and little freebies like toothbrushes and teeth whitening solutions and shes a holistic dentist. She treats you as a person and looks at the ‘whole’ picture not just the dollar signs. She also lets me pay off my bills. I see the person before I see the ‘dentist’.

That stuff is important to me. I look for the people who have depth and who aren’t all about themselves.

People with integrity and a passion for their work.

Those people are the ones that will give you real results each and everytime.

With my work it is the same. It isn’t about the money it’s about enjoying what I do. I take as much pleasure in the end result as my clients do. It’s important for me that they walk away happy with what I have done.

On the way to work yesterday we stopped at traffic lights and I noticed a pigeon wandering on the road, a couple of cars had stopped and moved around it slowly and one car drove straight over it much to my horror. Rogue stopped and chucked his hazard lights on and got out to usher the pigeon off the road. I remember sitting there thinking, ‘awesome, how many other people would stop and do this?’. He then went to ring the spca (animal peoples here) and whilst doing so the pigeon wandered back onto the road and under the car. I got out and checked to see where it was and found it wobbling under the car, he drove forward a little and I managed to usher it back to the sidewalk away from the traffic. Poor thing had been obviously hit by a car and had a swollen neck and fluid coming out of its beak and couldn’t fly. We decided to take it to a local lady who fixes birdy’s. It was fixable, apparently it had a burst ear sac and something had been broken but she was adamant it was fixable.I walked away smiling and thinking, cool we’ve done something good today.

Yano to alot of people it may well have been an insignificant bird. It’s not about that, it’s having the ability to have a little selflessness and do the right thing.

It doesn’t take much time to use your heart.

The simple things are important.

Doing the right thing is important.

Karma repays those who do.