Reflection has made me appreciate my long walks home better than ever before. I go through my day-to-day work schedule in a maze of activities- sometimes the days are quiet, sometimes the days are busy and exciting and yes, some days can pretty be annoying! I know that I am supposed to contribute to improvement of health aspects of many communities, but sometimes, when I pose amidst my day I don’t even see any connection- it’s a zoom of strange activities. The days I am busy I can get many questions, the days I am excited I have either gotten a new idea or achieved a particular pending accomplishment, and the days I get annoyed I have failed to achieve anything and it will be really slow, so even when I get asked questions, I will be slow and sometimes guiltily find myself dragging others in my failures- maybe through a response I should have taken time on or paying less attention than I should have.
However, whatever my day was like I always take a long walk home to replaying the day again to Recheck the Me. I think, “Does this happen to me alone or there is someone who goes through the same trials like me sometimes?” Rechecking Me has helped me become a better person appreciating everyday. Through reflection I get to be in an empathetic position comparing the two worlds of the day. It is then that I get to appreciate the small simple tasks that I did not recognize before to make me smile, but most of all I get to appreciate the people I was surrounded with during the day to trust me enough and approach me for an opinion, questions, reviews, calls- that I find myself blessed as there many people who are feared or may never be approached for any questions or opnions or anything.
On my way home I get to see all kinds of people, I then see the homeless seated alone and talking to themselves, looking and imagining having someone listen to them, that then I look to heavens in appreciation for the special gift I had in the day. As humans we need that human touch. It makes you feel good, worthwhile, and appreciate a contribution to life and at that moment you are proud to be in existence not matter our failures or achievements. Now, when those nasty feelings of failure crop up, I erase them immediately. But sometimes, some situations are so hard requiring one to hear from someone’s trying experience to share an amazing refresher – and I have been blessed to have people surprisingly share with me such rare experiences. This has more than made me realize that one by one of the people surrounding me is like a web ted that forms a strong system that will lead to something unique holistically improving a wider spectrum that I recognize then… that I have never been so proud of my work to be renewed and energized looking forward to another great day!