That'll Teach Me

One of the ways that you judge your "success" on Twitter is how often you get Re-Tweeted. If someone re-tweets something you say - sending out your message to all the people who follow them, it means that they liked it, they think it's interesting, they think their followers will think it's interesting.

I spent most of Monday trying to tweet various clever/sarcastic things and being slightly peeved when nobody te-tweeted me. Then I watched a programme about a Buddhist monk looking for the reincarnation of his spiritual leader in Tibet and Nepal. He found a baby who he thought was the reincarnation of his old master and after a series of tests, the moment came where he had to ask the parents of the boy, if they would allow him to be taken to a monastery that was miles away and be brought up as a monk. The father said something that really moved me - he said "I'm only doing this because I know he'll be working for the benfit of all sentient beings." So I tweeted that:

"Working for the benefit of all sentient beings"

and it got instantly Re-Tweeted.