Food ... bread and water what we need to sustain this life force that we have thriving in our bodies, but what do we need mentally to carry on each day? I ponder these questions while I reflected on my last couple of weeks. I thought of this quote from the movie Training Day as the actor says “..life is all about how well you manage your smiles and cries..” and I thought damn! smiles and cries have to be the mental equivalent to bread and water.
With that I thought back to a coworker who has to be the master of smiles and cries. I have grown close to the women I work with and talk to on a daily basis so much that they are starting feel like family. We spend most of our days going back and forth on gender issues and my out look on life mainly because they think that I’m crazy (figuratively speaking). I usually find myself in a losing battle because the women outnumber the men in my office like 15 to one, Never the less the conversation is good.
Well, in the last weeks she has suffered … the lost of a car, a new car, the lost of her grandmother …the wedding of her sister …then funeral of her grandmother … after which her aunt died on the same night … her daughters senior prom … and is waiting the funeral of her aunt… and I haven’t even seen her flinch. On top of all that, she deals with me and my antics at work without even a sign of her stopping or slowing. Some might say she is masking the hurt and may all come out at some time ..I say she is the master of smiles and cries … and she is my hero …because even as a grown man on the verge of losing my grandmother I can’t hide it…I can’t manage it…. I applaud your resilience! Z(eye)N
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