The importance of keeping that positive attitude, in tackling whatever comes our ways, that way, nothing will get too hard for us to handle…translated…
These years, we'd hired a foreign nurse's aide from Indonesia, to help me care for my husband who could no longer take care of himself. On the different nurse's aides, I'd found, that these girls who'd drifted from across the oceans, are so full of positive energies, they're always, wearing their, smiles.
the only way to make our own lives, easier...photo from online
That day, the nurse's aide Tea, just fed my husband his lunch, but he'd forgotten that he'd eaten the following moment, started shouting at her, "Why didn't you give me my lunch!", she'd smiled and responded, "Grandpa just had lunch, I'll feed you more in a bit.", and, even so, my husband still won't settle down, screamed at her, and, Tea didn't get impacted, and patiently soothed my husband. Tea's look of ingenuity, it'd made me feel bad for her, and I'd, apologized on behalf of my husband's behaviors to her, profusely.
She'd consoled me instead, said that as she'd decided to come here, her mother told her, to work hard here, to treat the elders she will be caring as her own family member, that way, her moods wouldn't be impacted as much; and to not be afraid of getting scolded, because, the elderly may have unstable mood swings.
"No matter how hard life gets, keep on, smiling", the words from her mother, she'd, remembered to her heart, and so, she'd, carried that positive attitude in everything she'd encountered.
This conversation was an awakening to me. Certainly, try our best, to put on that smile, every day, it would surely, make our lives, easier for sure.
So, this is the lesson this hired help taught the woman who'd hired her, to find the light in the grays, and even if there's no light right now, keep holding on, because life will, eventually, break through those, dark clouds that we are, under, because, the dark clouds won't stay forever in our, lives, things are destined to get, better.
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