Sunday, March 25, 2007
Visitng the elderlys.
Maybe it's community service. I prefer it as a social visit. Was reinforcement requested by Marv on the 11th hour but was glad that I'm part of the backup plan. Haha. Frankly speaking, I really didn't know what to expect going there but it did turn out to be a positive experience. My Canto sux, kinda reminded me of trying to understand what my grandma's trying to say everytime I went back to M'sia for CNY. Only know a little bit and the rest, I just gotta use my intellect and guess. Lol. One of the Ah ma there spoke Hokkien and I guess, it's fun chatting with her together with jun. She really talked about lots of things. Had MacDonalds and a stroll at WCP. Was holding on to an Ah Ma's hand coz I guess age's catching up on her. It was slow, much much more slower than the normal pace, or rather strides that I would take but somewhat did realise something - it felt good.
Sometimes we're juz moving on in life so quickly, trying to catch up with the next moment's thing that we forgot to enjoy what's at the present. The sky's blue. The birds are singing. The wind's blowing. Little children playing. Or all these are just like flashes passing by while we're rushing to the next thing to be done? Slow down and take a breather, relax. Haha...come to think about it, the Ah Ma did help me to wipe away my sweat with tissue paper. Lol, that's romantic, I would say. =P If she's 60-70 years younger, I'd certainly go for her. =D Well, could see that they're happy at the end of the day. Maybe all that they need is to have someone to talk to them, listen to them, walk with them for strolls, just..be with them. Lonely certainly isn't an attributable feeling at the age when you have too much time at hand. Talk to them, coz they certainly have lots of things we can learn just my listening - no sweat involved.
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