intergenerational drama project

Haven't updated for a while! I am trying to be happy and live an enriching life, especially after the intergenerational drama project. It has really inspired me, to care more for my own parents. Sometimes, you feel obliged to help your parents when you seem to be helping other elderly rather than your own. However, for me, this obligation is changing to true concern. Obligation just gives a very negative connotation to me, like as if one doesn't want to do something, but is forced to do it. It was so heart warming especially yesterday, when the 82 year old lady apologised to me. I was so puzzled, so I asked her why. She said that she was sorry for her hearing disability being a liability to us. I was speechless, i never ever thought of it that way! But this made me realise that these elderly care for us as well. :')

Sometimes, you tend to see things pigeon-holed(heh).
You see it as yourself helping the elderly, yes you are enjoying yourselves while helping them, but you don't really think about what you get in return, actually you are not supposed to be even thinking about what you get in return because you are genuinely helping. However, this gesture really moved me. For before one has this gesture, he/she must have the thoughts and feelings, which are derived from the heart.

All these community service have really driven me to work even harder, to stay more optimistic. These elderly, the truth is that, most of their life has passed. Yet they always smile, and seem free of troubles. I'm not going to focus on whether it's true, but the fact they can bring themselves to smile, proves they are either very very happy, or very strong. This is something we should learn from them as youths. We have a long life ahead of us, and we should thus be happier and appeased with what we have! I am really proud of being in Interact. People always give me the ._. face when I say I'm from Interact. I say, why does it bother you when it doesn't bother me when it's MY cca, not yours. I am not angry btw, just proving a point. I don't care about people's opinions, just about my own enjoyable experience in Interact.


Ending my long dialogue thingum here! Here are pictures from past meetings with zhonghuarians and my girls<3
 


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