Hello All! What a morning so far. First, I would like to begin the day with a huge thank you to the universe and the Goddess up there taking care of me. I know it's a lot of work. I'm a handful. But you are doing a fantastic job keeping me here lol. Before I dive into this piece, I want to start with giving you guys a sneak peek on what I do for a living. I am a homecare LPN, but my patient that I am with today goes to school. So, most of my care with him is at his school, which is a small facility for special needs children. Hidden up in the hills, deep in the New York forest, where you can catch deers, bears, foxes, I mean it's pretty much Bambi's home over here. I do appreciate nature, and I don't want to sound like I'm complaining here, even though I am a little bit, lol. I mean I'm going off on a tangent here.
Check out my morning guys; I leave at 6 am, pay two tolls, drive 55 miles to park my car at my patient's home and take a school bus to his school grounds. Oh, it does get better lol. We go back on the bus at 230pm and drive around for an hour, you know like a joy ride. Praying I don't throw up the entire car ride because at this point I am getting car sick. Do you ever get car sick? I mean it has to be the yuckiest 20 minutes of one's existence. Lol, could I be any more dramatic! We understand the picture here.
I'm in the cafeteria and ask the same lunch lady I see every day if I can please get a cup of coffee and a plain roll to hold me through the day because I forgot my wallet. She tells me no, she can't do that because I guess someone messed it up for the rest of us. No matter what I said, she said "no." Now, this is where I get annoyed. You see me every day, I work here. I'm not going anywhere. But places that sell hot food throw out so much, and you can't have the heart to tell me no when you are continually throwing out food? Americans forgot what it is to go without food if we can deny our colleague a cup of joe to get them through the day. There are countries that half of its population eat grass because of the lack of supply. But in this country, it's like the norm to deny a person a plate of food. All I wanted was a cup of coffee and a roll to sustain me so I can take proper care for my patient. Unfortunately, we aren't in the city where I can walk out of the building, and I can use my phone to pay for a meal, nor am I allowed to leave my patient alone.
Has our society changed that much that we have lost empathy for our peers? Where has humanity gone?