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Hey Pandas, What Is The Thing You Are Most Thankful You Went Back And Did?
Tell us what you are proudest of doing.
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Several years ago I was a volunteer with an association dealing with children with cancer. There was this 3.5 y.o. little girl, who was an orphan and was hospitalized for a tumor removal surgery. We, the volunteers, spent time with her in the hospital so that she wouldn't be alone. I replaced a colleague and stayed with Andra (that was her name) for a few hours. We played, we had fun, I read stories to her, I comforted her when another child was brought in crying in pain. As my colleague came to take over, Andra asked me: "Are you leaving me too?" "I'll be back, and look, you'll be staying with C. (my colleague)."
I took the stairs trying not to cry. Not sure what crossed my mind when I reached the courtyard, but I decided to go back. I entered her room, leaned towards her and whispered: "I love you, kiddo." Her face lightened up: "You do?? Really?? I love you too!!"
Surgery went well, but the cancer was too aggressive. She passed away a few weeks after. I felt so helpless and broken. But I am so glad that I came back to her that day.
Always making sure to tell my su*c*d*l friend "I love you" just in case I don't see them again the next day. I've told them that I love them for the past six years, and I've seen them almost every single day.
I hugged a freaking dinosaur! I was in such a great mood after I did it, because it’s a life long dream of mine to hug a dinosaur, and I finally got the chance to cross it off my bucket list. It wasn’t real, but I didn’t care, I was just so happy that I thought my little head would explode from all the joy that I was experiencing.
Kumon. I got ahead in so much math and did really well in school, even though it is for people who are generally behind.
I am proudest of walking out of therapy. Now, read the whole thing please. I am a big advocate for therapy. I think the whole country needs it. The therapist I had wasn't a good fit. She was repetitive, not understanding, and often times homophobic (hurtful for me as a pan person 0 straight friends). One day during a session, I couldn't take it anymore. I got up and walked out and told my mom I wanted to leave. I was lucky my mom respected that. Today, I had my first appointment with my new therapist, and I am SO excited, because she seems like an awesome person, and I think she'll really help me!
I guess I'm just as proud of myself for getting back into therapy, too!
I apologized for being rude to a customer on the phone. She was unpleasant to deal with when I was swamped so I was short with her. I called her back to apologize when things slowed down. She was pleasantly surprised and thanked me for my professional candor.
Apologize, when you know you hurt someone with actions or words because you get mad at something. Even when I’m right to be mad. If I deliberately hurt people I apologize. Its somehow selfish because i fell better after. But most of the time it heals the other person too.
Turning around after driving 30 minutes on an overnight trip to my parents and double checking if I locked the door , which I did not because a cat got out and I had to grab him so I got distracted and forgot. Later when we got home we noticed the mat moved so we checked our ring door and low and behold someone at like 2 a.m. attempted to break into our apt, after they couldnt get in they checked under the mat for a key. I didn't really care about our stuff as much as I'm pretty sure if a burglar lets your animals out, they arent going to put them back.
But I feel like that's how you loose a bunch of money not just you cat..
