Posted by CSC T.H.E. Seniors on Thursday, November 06, 2014 with No comments
It's been a really long time since I last posted my thoughts here so here I am!
I visited one of our new beneficiary last Saturday with Joelle and the new elderly is Mdm L and her long term friend/flatmate M! Mdm L is a really strong character and is always excited about sharing her stories with us. She used to be a volunteer at Touch Centre and she gets really excited when she gets the chance to shared the song and dance moves that she invented for the elderly at the centre! However, she had to stop working at the centre after she developed Glaucoma. But she remains a very cheerful and optimistic character even though she's losing her eyesight. Mdm L got a daughter and a son, her daughter is living in the US and I can tell her misses her because she kept telling me that she is coming back to visit her in 2 weeks' time!
Mdm L has a real interest in studying, she learned chinese medicine in secret even though her father was against it and she learned singing as well! She's familiar with all the tactics of singing and if you're lucky you can even get to hear her sing a few notes! I have to say her singing is super good and her voice strong and powerful despite her age of 84!
Another thing that touched me during this visit is the friendship between mdm L and M. They have known each other since young and mdm L have been taking care of M since she was 15! M is a very friendly and innocent character, which made her susceptible to people who are out to trick her of her money etc. I can tell that Mdm Lee is always worried about M getting tricked by others and she is very protective of her. And M is appreciative of this fact. Even though they don't always express their love for one another and mdm L would occasionally nag at M, I could tell they both appreciated one another for being there for one another whenever either of them needed help.
I think the take home message that I got from this visit is that no matter how depressed and tired you feel in life, you just need to get on with life and things will get better eventually. Sometimes life gets in the way of things. And you are left with regrets and feeling hard done by and in the process you spread the negativity to others. But that's just not worth it at all. Because when you're letting yourself get overwhelmed by these negativity, you're forgetting that there's a lot more things that you can do to improve the situation that you're in. All you need to do is just work with what you have because most of the time, things could have been worse. I think mdm L remained such a cheerful person partly because she knows she made a difference in people's life when she could with whatever she had. And that's enough for her.
To end off this post I'm gonna share a song from the movie "Wreck it Ralph". This movie carries a message and that message is that All of us, regardless of our size; our status; our ability; no matter how small you feel in this huge and complicated world that we live in, we all have a role to play in someone's life. So go out there and make a difference in someone's life right now. No matter how small that action is, it could be just saying a "good night" to your parents before you go to sleep tonight or just being kind to a random person who needs help.
Sometimes what this world needs is just a little more hope; a little more innocence; a little more fun, laughter, and a little more belief. There's always hope in life no matter how bleak things may seem. You just need to believe.
All the best for finals everyone :)
- Vernon
I visited one of our new beneficiary last Saturday with Joelle and the new elderly is Mdm L and her long term friend/flatmate M! Mdm L is a really strong character and is always excited about sharing her stories with us. She used to be a volunteer at Touch Centre and she gets really excited when she gets the chance to shared the song and dance moves that she invented for the elderly at the centre! However, she had to stop working at the centre after she developed Glaucoma. But she remains a very cheerful and optimistic character even though she's losing her eyesight. Mdm L got a daughter and a son, her daughter is living in the US and I can tell her misses her because she kept telling me that she is coming back to visit her in 2 weeks' time!
Mdm L has a real interest in studying, she learned chinese medicine in secret even though her father was against it and she learned singing as well! She's familiar with all the tactics of singing and if you're lucky you can even get to hear her sing a few notes! I have to say her singing is super good and her voice strong and powerful despite her age of 84!
Another thing that touched me during this visit is the friendship between mdm L and M. They have known each other since young and mdm L have been taking care of M since she was 15! M is a very friendly and innocent character, which made her susceptible to people who are out to trick her of her money etc. I can tell that Mdm Lee is always worried about M getting tricked by others and she is very protective of her. And M is appreciative of this fact. Even though they don't always express their love for one another and mdm L would occasionally nag at M, I could tell they both appreciated one another for being there for one another whenever either of them needed help.
I think the take home message that I got from this visit is that no matter how depressed and tired you feel in life, you just need to get on with life and things will get better eventually. Sometimes life gets in the way of things. And you are left with regrets and feeling hard done by and in the process you spread the negativity to others. But that's just not worth it at all. Because when you're letting yourself get overwhelmed by these negativity, you're forgetting that there's a lot more things that you can do to improve the situation that you're in. All you need to do is just work with what you have because most of the time, things could have been worse. I think mdm L remained such a cheerful person partly because she knows she made a difference in people's life when she could with whatever she had. And that's enough for her.
To end off this post I'm gonna share a song from the movie "Wreck it Ralph". This movie carries a message and that message is that All of us, regardless of our size; our status; our ability; no matter how small you feel in this huge and complicated world that we live in, we all have a role to play in someone's life. So go out there and make a difference in someone's life right now. No matter how small that action is, it could be just saying a "good night" to your parents before you go to sleep tonight or just being kind to a random person who needs help.
Sometimes what this world needs is just a little more hope; a little more innocence; a little more fun, laughter, and a little more belief. There's always hope in life no matter how bleak things may seem. You just need to believe.
All the best for finals everyone :)
- Vernon
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