If you lost everything, what would be the one thing you need?
Had a lot of things I wanted to write this week but I found out that an aunt of mine died.
We were never really close, but she was always there since I was a kid. In fact, I learned more about her after she passed than I ever knew while she was living.
For example, she managed people in a garment business for almost 25 years. She was hired to be a seamstress but was so talented that she was immediately promoted to manage all of them, despite speaking almost no English.
She never had much scratch because she was always giving what little she had away to charities; she had just given away several thousand to Hurricane Sandy victims and volunteered for several weeks.
She didn’t worry, though, cause she’d always say that as long as she had a pair of scissors to make clothes, she’d be ok.
That made me think: If I lost everything, if I just had a keyboard, or even a pencil and paper, I’d be ok.
Maybe teach fencing on the side for some extra coin. After all, the limits of our imagination are the limits of our world.
Getting back to her, the last thing I learned was there was no body at the funeral. She donated her body to medical students at Hofstra University and her organs to five families that needed it.
Think that impressed me the most. In her last act, she still managed to help people. We all have our three lives.
Wish I knew all of the above about her when she was alive. But we’re all always so busy aren’t we?
You never can tell about other people. Said it before, we are made in our sleep to be heroes or villains.
She was a nice old lady. Nicer even than I knew. She lived a life worth living and that’s something, isn’t it?
Mood: impressed
Music: there are some with no home, not a nickel to loan
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