A Phone Call…

The show of care and concern, that came, JUST at the right time here, translated…

I’d never imagined, that a phone call can, fill up a heart that’s originally plagued with fear with warmth, and, earn me some prize money too.

A couple of years ago, my husband fell ill and was, hospitalized, he had the drip stuck in his hand, and the bed is too high, as he’d needed to head to the bathrooms, he’d, needed to move everything around him out of the way, and, there would be times when he couldn’t make it to the bathrooms in time. I’d needed to change the sheets, and, change him into clean clothes, and I’d also, needed to, take his soiled clothes back home to get cleaned, it’d, caused me, to look very pale and broken.

Once my niece came to visit, and noted all of it, she’d mentioned it to her father. Not long thereafter I got a call from my older brother asking about my husband, and he’d shown empathy toward my situations, and told me that we both need to hang in there. Maybe, it was because my husband grew up without his parents, as this child without a father received the cares and concerns from an older brother, he’d felt, especially, warmed up inside.

One year, a certain foundation had the essay contest on “A Phone Call”, I’d used my life as the topics, and, described how when I was at my most fragile, because of my older brothers’ show of share and concerns, I’d gotten a boost, and my essay won, I’d even earned some prize money too, it’d made me realized, how powerful, a phone call can be.

Because of your older brothers’ show of kindness toward your husband, that, is why it’d, warmed up your heart, and, because your husband didn’t have a father growing up, the show of care and concern from your older brother came at the time when he’d, most needed it, and, it’d, warmed him up, and you also gained the opportunity, to write about it, and won an essay contest for it too! See how just one simple act of kindness can carry you a very long way???