That's the spirit, have that positive attitude toward the uncontrolled, unpredictable in our lives, that's how we will, being able to still contribute to the society, even after we'd retired…translated…
Having worked for over forty years to date, gone through the fundamental government exams, the government owned facilities going private, married, having children, certified as a homecare provider, my elderly mother passing away, in the blink of an eye, I'd, set foot into the, elderly years too. Born in poverty stricken means, I'd considered "money" in career, after graduating from technical high school, I'd begun working, the monthly wages I'd begun earning was higher than the instructors, but I'd not been proud of what I did for a living, I'd part-timed my way through community college, wanted to keep going in my education, but, my mother is aging, and was in need of my care, and I'd, put of chasing my own, career. I'd thought, "if I can, keep myself agile, then, the opportunities will come, knocking! If I work hard, then, fate will bless me!"
During the time when the economy in Taiwan was just taking flight, the demands for the males was for them to work hard, to prove themselves, in other words, there were, multiple standards placed upon us materialistically, and this value was, internalized way too, deeply for us, and it'd became that we are making enough money, but the stresses from work had, eroded our health away.
The time passed more, and my mother grew older, and is in the elderly years, during the daytime, I'd hired a homecare nurse, and in the evenings, came my turn to watch over her, and so, I'd, taken the time of my rotated days off, or taken leave from work, to learn the skills to care for the patients at home, to fulfill my filial piety responsibilities toward my own mother.
The place for us to shine is everywhere and anywhere, my families, my work, that's, my stage, and now, although, my mother had, passed, but these wings on me, they're, still able, a bit weaker now, I'd needed to, increase my physical abilities, to work hard to build more muscles, but so long as I exercise regularly, balance my diets, go to my scheduled health exams, I'm sure, that I will still be a good employee, even as I'd switched to another field of work.
I'm still, able-bodied, and I will, take on, more cases, try, thinking about how many of the elderly persons in the society would need the cares in the aging society? Having switched tracks, not only would I be, offering my aid to others, I'm also, benefitting my own, self (with that growing sense of achievement, less of the loneliness), I'd become, that aging butterfly, that still continues to flutter its wings, in the, aging world.
And so, because we ALL grow old one day, might as well, be more than prepared, by, taking the home care courses, to offer our assistance to the aging population, especially as our own parents are aging fast, and we will, follow in their, footsteps, and there's this current program of working for hours now, and we get to, "trade-in" the hours we'd worked in our younger years, for our own care in the elderly years that's implemented by our, government.
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