1. LOOKING BACK: Today, I interviewed my grandmother for part of a research paper I’m working on for my Psychology class. When I aske...
1. LOOKING BACK:
Today, I interviewed my grandmother for part of a
Today, I interviewed my grandmother for part of a
research paper I’m working on for my Psychology class.
When I asked her to define success in her own words,
she said, “Success is when you look back at your life
and the memories make you smile."
2. LOOKING BACK:
Today, as my father, three brothers, and two sisters
stood around my mother’s hospital bed, my mother
uttered her last coherent words before she died.
She simply said,
“I feel so loved right now. We should have
gotten together like this more often.”
3. AFFECTION:
Today, I kissed my dad on the forehead as he
passed away in a small hospital bed.
About 5 seconds after he passed, I realized it was the
first time I had given him a kiss since I was a little boy.
4. JOY:
Today, when I witnessed a 27-year-old cancer patient
laughing hysterically at her 2-year-old daughter’s antics,
I suddenly realized that I need to stop complaining
about my life and start celebrating it again.
5 KINDNESS:
Today, a boy in a wheelchair saw me desperately
struggling on crutches with my broken leg and
offered to carry my backpack and books for me.
He helped me all the way across campus to my class
and as he was leaving he said,
“I hope you feel better soon.”
6. SHARING:
Today, I was traveling in Kenya and I met a refugee from
Zimbabwe. He said he hadn’t eaten anything in over 2 days
and looked extremely skinny and unhealthy.
Then my friend offered him the sandwich he was about to eat.
The first thing the man said was, “We can share it.”
Cheers to life..!
