display stand, and the clerk was trying to figure out how to weigh two
bananas that weren’t there, oblivious to the fact that I had someplace to go
and had to get there quickly.
I noticed an older woman behind me with only a few items in her basket.
“You may want to go to another line, I suggested apologetically.
“That’s all right. My kids are all grown, and I have nowhere to rush off to.
I’m just enjoying watching your lovely family,” she replied with a smile.
It was at that moment that I started to understand patience. I was always
charging off with my to-do list in hand all the times, thinking that when
everything was done, which it never seemed to be, I myself could really
enjoy life. Up to now, I began to realize that what I was doing every day was
life. So, why didn’t I give myself a chance of enjoying it? I understood that
patience was the ability to guide my children to growth amid the everyday
stuff a mommy does.
I still had to get my kids off to school, bath them, feed them and bring them
to sleep. But when I just slowed down and loved the life I was in, I found
patience for myself, my dears!
- Peter Rouse
Chuyện thường ngày
Kế hoạch của tôi khá đơn giản. Đó không phải là vẽ bản thiết kế cho một tòa
nhà chọc trời, cũng không phải là những mục tiêu tài chính cho một hợp
đồng kinh doanh quy mô nào đó. Tôi chỉ mong sao cho bốn đứa con của
mình thay đồ và ăn uống cho nhanh. Sau đó, lái xe đưa chúng đến trường
đúng giờ mà không gặp phải rủi ro nào.
Nhưng kế hoạch đó hầu như lúc nào cũng bị thất bại.
