Recharging the spirit

Dad emailed me this today, and I had to share it with everyone. It's one of those incredibly moving moments in life where you just get a sense that you're just a small tiny piece in the grand scheme of things, and that maybe you have a purpose far beyond what you can see.

This morning, went to Walmart to buy confectionery sugar for mum to practice her icing making. As I was waiting for the car in front of me to back off from the parking lot, another car driven by an elderly lady (like Ah Ma type), drove into the lot which I was waiting for. She probably did not notice that I was waiting, but then as she turned in she saw my car there. She wanted to back off for me, but I waved her on to indicate that I will look for another space.

I found another space about 30 meters away and went into Walmart to buy the sugar. After picking the sugar I thought we lacked some fruits and went over to the fruit section and proceeded to pick up some nectarines. Halfway I saw a lady struggling to tear the plastic bags off the rolls, so I just went to help her. It turned out to be the one who took my parking lot. She recognised me and apologised etc but I said its ok, and all the stuff.

Then as she was trying to pack some nectarines into her bag, she must have bungled by holding the wrong end of the plastic bag cos all her fruits scattered on the floor. Seeing her so "cham" (suffering), I helped her to pick up her fruits, and repack with fresh ones, tie up the plastic bags etc. l

She was very grateful, and just looked at me, very gently touched my left cheek with her right hand, and said "Bless You !". I felt so nice after that, and when I returned home, I told mum about it, and said - ok, I am not going to wait until nextt week to 'replay', but I am going now. Somehow this old lady seemed to recharged me greatly.