Several months back, I met a young single mother while waiting for a train at South Station. She was having a conversation with her mother on her cell phone, multitasking -feeding her 3 year old daughter breakfast at the same time.
I overheard her telling her Mom she secured a job interview, needed to call them back to schedule a time and asked if and when her Mom could help by making herself available. The conversation ended after unsuccessfully trying to schedule a time over the course of the following few weeks. The conversation seemed to take the wind out of her sails.
She made another call asking someone else for assistance and I overheard her explaining how she had tried her parents but they were very busy volunteering their time at the library and local dog hospital.
A set of screwed up priorities if I ever heard them.
I try hard to keep the focus of my 'volunteer' hours on the people who are important in my life, but I find I often miss the boat myself.
"Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are — in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society — completely forgotten, completely left alone.” - Blessed Mother Teresa
"Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are — in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society — completely forgotten, completely left alone.” - Blessed Mother Teresa
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