Thoughts about Care

I am almost 50% done with my volunteer time here at care. Today was a day off but not feeling good and it was raining, I spent my time in the rig doing lots of thinking. Would I come back here again as a volunteer? Yes I think I would, not because I like the area or the park itself, because I don't...  I have however fallen in a kind of love for the residents.

   Young people could lean a lot from the older couples, some married for 50,60,70 years. It is so cool to see the love and devotions that still shows. I watch in wonder and yes envy as some walk around the park helping each other or maybe holding hands. Maybe they walk slow or need help but the other one is right there helping. One couple here reminds me so much of my grandparents it amazes me, this is the one that has made it for 70 years.

  So no matter what chore I am given to do here I will not mind, just have to remember why I am here.. It is all for the residents, to help them enjoy a full life during this time. Without a place like CARE most of this couples could not stay together, one or both would end up in a nursing home alone.  That is the bottom line why I volunteered in the first place, need to keep reminding myself...  I am not by nature a volunteer type so sometimes I have problems doing some things....  BUT I will get "R" done..


This I promise myself..