My nugget for the day!

Monday blues, who else is sharing same sentiments with me?

Today marks the beginning of my last week working at SP Corp Comm Department. Time flies eh! Four months had passed since I last joined here. 2 more days and I will be leaving CCOM. #sad

So I was busy with mailing Escapade registrations (as usual) this afternoon. It was when I heard some commotion going on at front desk. I was at MySpace (literally) that time. This elderly lady was looking for her son who has not returned home since last weeks. Being a worried mother, she came looking for him at SP twice, last week and today.

The son is working at SP. Apparently, he has not gone home since last week and refused to let his mother know. He did not called his mother nor picked up any call from her.

After much callings were made, the supervisor of the son asked the lady to sit outside to wait for her son while they get him.

She waited nearly half an hour, and Jun was telling me she looked very frail and tired.

I couldn't bear any longer. I brought a bottle of water and some snacks to her. I bet she was really happy to see someone who cared about her.

Then the lady shared her woes with me. In fact, I was happy to lend her a listening hear, of course, hoping that she would feel better after she pouring her heart out.

After I sat down and accompanied her for a time being, her son appeared. So I left two of them alone to talk among themselves. Pray that she will be better now.

What amazed me was that she is very healthy and alert for an 83 years old lady. And that indescribable joyous feeling I got after accompanying and seeing her smile reminded me of the exact same feeling I felt back in Tibet.

It's just the same. And it also reminded me of why I wanted to do volunteering in the first place. To bring joy, and see someone smiles.

It is a simple random kindness that bringing joy not only to the people you helped, but yourself as well.

On a random note:

"After this particular phenomenon, I thought of my mother and my grandparents. I believe they pretty share the same sentiments.

Especially my mom, she has only me to depend on. I imagined her worries and woes over me and compared them with the lady, they are pretty much the same. Luckily for the grandma, she has 7 children to depend while my mom has only me.

And I thought of my father, who would always be excited and happy to see me whenever I returned Myanmar. If only he is still alive now, I would definitely treasure him more.

As of now, my mother is all I have in this world."

Let's get back to the topic!

Lesson learnt today, one act simple random kindness can bring joy, we might never know how big the impact is.

Join me, build a random kindness today.



Signing off.