happy new year!
so last week i was chatting with my mom while she was getting her chemo treatment. anyway we had a good convo going about how lucky we are and how tough they had it. basically she was telling me her poor days and for some reason even though i've heard some of the stories before, this time it hit me different. made me open my eyes to others out there.
anyway i as she told me this one story i actually remember parts of it as this was one of the first times i saw my mom cry. my bro, sis and i were really young and one year in Nov my dad got laid off work and my mom started to cry. she was worried because she was not sure if we would have "real" food for dinner that week and then now with the bad news she was sure the dinners would come down to whatever she could scrounge up. She told me for a while there all we ate was rice with soy sauce, old wilted veggies that she bought from the "cheap bin" at safeway and thin thin slices of chicken or some sort of meat (thin so we could have some left for the next day). lots of fruit salad for lunches as she also bought the overripe or bruised fruit from the cheap bin. christmas came and she made us gifts but was not able to scrounge up a special dinner so she gave the three of us a thicker slab of chicken and more veggies while her and my dad had only plain white rice.
anyway all is well now. but i guess stories like this really made me appreciate all that i have and all the friends and family i have to be with during the holidays.
i know this is kinda a weird thing to ask but do any of you have any poor stories to share? maybe your parents or someone you know? or even stories of survival/near death experiences. something that made you really appreciate the life you live.