Seeing someone in need, of words of care and concerns, and offering them to the individual, it may not be much to you, but it means, a whole lot, to them! On how the cycle of kindness, still rolls…translated…
That day it was the Mother's Day celebration of my unit, the coworkers came one by one, and, I'd suddenly found, that F had come, too.
We originally worked in the same unit, and for the reasons of time, F transferred to another group, I'd not known her that well, and, I'd, greeted her, "hey, long time no see!", but she'd looked, drained, responded, "oh, I can't even, lift my feet up to walk around anymore!"
just by being there, listening, and offering the emotional support, that is, enough! Photo from online
I'd instinctively felt, that she'd been, drained by work, I'd wanted to give her some encouragement using a lighter air, and told her, "it's okay you can't walk, I'll, push you around." Like a kid, playing a game, I'd given her, a gentle nudge on her back, at the same time, I'd, chanted, "come on, let's walk on! Come on, come on, let's, walk, on…………", she'd played along, and started, chanting the words with me, and the two of us became like children, as we'd, played around, entered into the meeting place.
In the evening, I'd received a text from her, it'd said, that she was low on energies that afternoon, and thanked me for using that "push of love", helping her move forward, she'd originally wanted to turn around, and give me a hug, but worried that she might, burst into, tears………I couldn't imagine, that my actions, like child's play, could move her so much. Thinking about it, I'd, responded back to her, "we should, help each other out, as humans, should we not?"
Shortly after this, I'd gone to get a biopsy by myself, and, the patients' beds were separated by the curtains, and in the darkness, I'd become, confused as to where I was, going. And at this moment, an unknown woman put her hand on my back, and guided me to the right bed, then told me, "safe surgery!"
offering someone the emotional support that s/he is in need of...photo from online
Those simple actions and words, it'd, made me feel her helping heart. At that very moment, my anxieties, my fears, were settled down by a strong and steady feel of, gentleness, and I had no idea who the woman is.
This stranger's hand of kindness, it'd reminded me of the kindness I'd shown to F, later I'd found out, that F was battling her cancer at the time. I think, we all get in a jam in our lives at one time or another, when we get to our emotional lows, we are not in need of a pointless "keep going you can make it!" or "stop worrying so much!", but the sense of helping that someone not feel so alone anymore; even if you two aren't acquaintances, through the short period of companionship, the verbal and physical support you can show, it can, make the individuals feel cared for, to give them the strengths to keep fighting.
So, this is on the cycle of kindness, how easy it is shown, by a simple act of a hug, an embrace or just by asking how someone is, and, maybe, you don't think that much of these small words or actions, but it means a hell of a lot to the person who's in need of the emotional support that they're, looking, for.
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