Positivity

I work at a non-profit organization. We help people who are going through hard times. Our credo is to give them the emergency services to help them through crisis and offer them the tools to help them toward the goal of self-sufficiency. One of my jobs is to help our clients get caught up on their utility bills in order to prevent shutoff and thus to prevent them to go without heat and electricity during the winter in Michigan. This brings me to one of my clients.

Lady comes in for an appointment with a smile and the contentment of the faithful. Story has it that she was in a severe motorcycle accident. Hospitalized her for months, caused months more of her unable to work and to take care of her children properly. And to add to that, her husband left her. She had finished school to be an EMT right before her accident and because of the accident, she is unable to work in that field. Now she wants to go back to school and try something else, but has almost no income, is days away from having her utilities from being shutoff, is doubtful that she can afford to stay in her current residence and is having a hard time with her children due to the months that they were mostly unsupervised during her recuperation.

And all through this, she stays positive and looks hopeful that things will turn around. As it turns out, I was unable to help her, and as I walked her out of the office, she thanked me for the time and trudged along to try something else.

After all that life can throw at you, you can sit still and cry till it all caves in, or you can fight your way through it. She not only fought. She did it with a smile on her face. That's positivity.