What was my donating my time today at the church downtown doing to make me feel like I am blessed beyond belief??? This has totally blown my self pity party out of the water!!! I feel like I have been given a gift and I am not about to give it back to the giver, cuz it feels so unbelievably good! So better than I have been feeling of late any how!!! I only folded socks and passed them out (one to a customer, yet some did get two cuz that is what I DO, LOL and learned a little bit about how other people are living in shelters with loud, noisy, fighting, people all night long….and the beurocracy etc of red tape if you are not “old enough” to fit into the plan for seniors, and people with broken feet, who don’t get in to see for help, and then the play up on the stage about Christ and angels and the reason for the season, and then to get choaked up when our table was “served” food on plates heaping with hot tasty food and desert and free loaves of bread or bags of buns and more treats and juice, oh and time deadlines for the men who needed to scarf down the meal in ten minutes so they could return to the shelter in ten minutes flat to secure a bed for the night and if they didn’t do check in they were out of luck…I mean GAWD I have lived in this city for 6 years and knew nothing of this situation….how blind was I ???? wow, how small of me….wow, so much to re-evalute in the thought wheels of my mind….. hmmmm I have been so off kilter…wtf and wow again!
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Great post, thanks for sharing your experience. I think almost everyone on this website could benefit from having their eyes opened in a similar fashion. Most people on this website have awesome lives and they don’t really know what it’s like to suffer. And the people who are really suffering, aren’t the ones who sit around on a suicide website and cry about it, they just make the most of their day, thankful to get their hands on some food and a warm place to sleep.
I’m glad you got to have this experience. Sounds like it was powerful for you.
thank you for your post, it was a very powerful or rather several powerful moments all linked together from the start of the volunteer experience to the last where I dropped off my new friend at her apartment. Where have I been? oh yes I know, in my pity party!! What a waste of my life, I have it so good!!! I really do and I know it, and I do appreciate it, and I am grateful, so now I better get on to helping others feel like they too have it so good!