Buildings and Carpenters

There is this feeling of being useless. And more often than not, I feel that way. It is a feeling I usually have when I work with people who doesn't "travel the same road" as I am (unless they're the kind that depend on me too much they make me do all the work). I thought that if I was with birds of the same feather, I will feel less useless.

I was wrong. I think.

Recently, we had this video-making project. Ours turned out great, in my opinion. And I guess I owe it a lot to my groupmates who stripped themselves of their pride and acted. But then I realized that I never once appeared in any of the scenes (well, except maybe the behind-the-scenes part).

Of course, one of the few reasons was because I was holding the camera in some of the scenes. But for the rest of the video, I was just standing in a corner, watching my groupmates make a fool out of themselves.

And so I told my friend about what I felt. She told me this:

"When you see a beautiful building, you cannot tell who the carpenters are. But the building can never be there without them."

The video was shown to a few other sections in our year level. Later on, I found out that one of the students who saw the video told my groupmates:

"AM was good."

I didn't feel so useless anymore.