Past & Present
Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 22:48 I recall leaving work late one evening, passing by her desk and seeing that she was not there. And that was because she got a call earlier in the day concerning a family emergency - her mother had suffered a stroke.
The truth is I didn’t know what to think just then – her world as she knew it was thrown into utter chaos in an instant. Should I call her? And say what? Are there really any words of comfort worth offering in times like that? There are, actually, and I managed to put them into a text message after several minutes of thought – that her friends are forever with her, we would be her constants in this time of uncertainty.
She was absent from work for perhaps two weeks and I made the occasional phone call to check on her. And after the days of endless worry there was such relief and joy in her voice on the afternoon that the doctors allowed her mother to go home. It was a second chance that would not be taken for granted, ever.
She came on over to my table to say “Hi” today. It was Mother’s Day and she had brought hers for ice cream, just as I did mine. As she walked on out I remembered that back then she would have given anything to have seen this day, to have spent it as she did. And I could relate to that - cos' after reflecting on my own life experiences, I can see that my own thoughts are exactly the same.
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