✅ What a Message ✅
In the last week, I have read two things that I thought were both useful and quite profound.
Before you read, be aware, they are not my habitual and regular standard ‘business, business, business’ posts, but I think they are both important. And both can apply in business…
I will share the second one later this week.
The first just popped up on social media. I read it once, then I read it again. Something I hadn’t really ever thought specifically about. It speaks to our lives, not just work – but applies everywhere.
It was written by a lady I know nothing about from Oz – Adele Barbaro…
Here it is –
Melbourne mum Adele Barbaro, who blogs as The Real Mumma, took to Facebook after witnessing two elderly people being treated poorly while others “fade away into the busy life” they live.
“One man just needed Panadol for his wife but the shop assistant simply said ‘it’s in 6’,” she wrote.
“But he struggled to navigate the supermarket and as I watched him go in the wrong direction, I left all my groceries and took him where he needed to go.”
She added days later she watched an elderly man “struggle in the heat” who had “obviously had a fall with a huge scrape and blood on his leg”.
But no one paid attention to him.
“He walked past people in the cafe, while he slowly made his way to his car. Not one person stopped or looked or acknowledged him,” Ms Barbaro wrote.
“I took him to his car and checked he was OK. He told me he had a fall and wasn’t sure how the air con worked in his car so he just didn’t use it.
“I sat with him, until his air con kicked in and heard him talk about the old frail body that he is in, that fails him now, every single day.
When you see an elderly person walking down the street, searching in the supermarket or struggling to their car, take a minute out of your busy schedule and ask them if they need a hand,” she wrote.
“Think about your grandparents and your parents and how pissed you would be if someone didn’t stop to help them.”
She added “once upon a time they were you” and had responsibilities such as work and children.
They deserve our utmost respect and consideration,” she wrote.
“One day it will be you, it will be us. I wish more people gave a s*** about them and acknowledged them for their admirable existence and geez I hope someday, not that far away, someone does it for me.”