WHAT MAKES a day SPECIAL?
Think about that for just one moment an pause on your busy day this holiday season.
To you it might mean a phone call or visit from a family member or friend.
Another person might say their mood was good , feeling great.
Another person might say its a good day since they were able to get out of bed and their pain was at least much easier to bare and could walk an not be tired easily.
What if it was chatting to a stranger on the net that made you feel better?
that's it a stranger on an advice line that took the time to make you felt your life was special.
Can you even imagine a young life filled with tragedy that felt her life was not worth anything, that no one cared at all?
That she reached out everyday for moments on school computer to let someone know her thoughts and her feelings.
At a young tender age with a willow frame of 98 pounds that she felt herself fat and ugly.
When I spoke to her at almost lunch time she had not eaten and was shivering in the cold with short sleeves and said she was not hungry.
She felt trust in me after almost a week of revealing to me finally her real name well at least her first name but not where she was except living with foster parents and attending school.
I know foster parents are very special people and ty their best , that is what I want to say is positive on most placements for young teens, yet I feel for this child.
She states she reached out to me since I had a warm smile and a motherly love and maybe I might have love to share and we could become close in time. Disturbing I found her words of wanting to harm herself and only having brief connections during school hours. What happens in the times between and weekends, so many unanswered questions.
I would like to challenge you this season and to make it a weekly effort of volunteering your time to an agency or church or school that need you. I feel it is a responsibility to everyone to give to others not just money but their time.
Thankyou for your time I feel it is not just at the holiday season but all through the year that help is needed.
But at holiday times feelings become so tangled and expectations are not met. People who have experienced loss and lonely feel that triple and most times are not sure how to handle it.
I believe it starts at one person at a time.
written by Nancy Macdonald RPN
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