Volunteer

My youngest has added a new way to start her week. She volunteers on Mondays at a cancer center, helping the patients with their exercises. It’s at 8:00 AM. She walks 20 minutes to get there , then 20 minutes back to campus. She reports the optimism and positive energy that each of the patients exude. Soon she realizes that any test or task she’s been given by a professor is a cake walk– and that complaining is silly.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had that kind of perspective shift to start the week?