The Simplest Blessing

I sometimes forget how blessed I am when I feel the little nuisances of life. Complaining on the littlest discomfort is so easy because I tend to look about how I feel without considering the feelings of others.

Today is a good day to change my perspective about life's discomfort and put my place in the shoes of other people.  I just finished doing the laundry without a sweat because I used a fully automatic washing machine. So, I shouldn't be complaining, right? However, the next part was the one that I was trying to avoid given my right shoulder's painful condition and the extreme weather outside (46 degrees Celcius at 11:56 a.m.). I didn't have a choice because I wanted to maximize the hot weather so the clothes could dry fast. I opened the veranda door and the hot air filled the room instantly and I started sweating. It was like standing in front on an open oven door. That is how hot the weather is right now. And then I saw them - the workers. Right in front of our building is a steel fabricating company. I saw the workers in their dirty jumpsuit with towels on their heads working, hammering steels, driving forklifts and doing their day-to-day routine. And there I was, standing on the veranda with our living room airconditioning unit on, putting the clothes to dry in the line for only few minutes and complaining already about the hot and humid weather. My inconvenience and discomfort is so insignificant compared to their hard work and sacrifices to support themselves and their families. It is 46 degrees Celcius outside and they are working, I cannot compete with that.

I took my camera and instantly snapped them. It will always be a reminder for me to not complain and be thankful because I have it easy. This is a testament of how blessed I am and I don't have a reason to doubt it. Thank you Lord for allowing me to see this new perspective in life. And please Lord, bless those hard working labourers outside who have to endure the hot weather to earn an honest living. Bless them all and give them a break.

So poofed!

I have never been this exhausted in my life! I don't want to sound whiny and all but my whole body really, really, really, as in really aches - from my toes to the ends of my hair! That bad. I had to ask my dear daughter to massage my legs and arms because I could not move them.

Our office decided to relocate on the floor above our current place and to pack almost 150 + big boxes full of ......... is not a big joke. I have been packing since Wednesday and now was the unpacking day. I wanted to run away. It was pure physical labor and now I truly appreciate what those mover guys do for a living. It's not an easy task to lug around with trolleys and wheel carts to shift boxes here and there to another place and to move those heavy cabinets and equipments. I empathize with them and I am thankful in a way that even when my body aches this bad for the past 2 days, it is nothing compared to what they actually do. God bless them.