When you are good to others, you are good to yourself

 When you are good to others, you are good to yourself, when you are mean to others, you are mean to yourself.

A reflective piece 

During the height of the pandemic, many people looked to healthcare individuals to assist them in finding answers or providing soothing words, and words of hope and giving them humane treatments. However, sometimes institutions put barriers in place that prevents us from helping or reaching people. However, within the confines of these boundaries, you can always navigate around the barriers to reach people. This is the example of offering a client accommodation for a vaccine clinic. She refused to wear a mask or anything around her face. She had a phobia, she was claustrophobic. The important thing for me was, that she had made it a point to come to the vaccine clinic so we should be able to accommodate. That is precisely what we did. While having a conversation with her, she exchanged with me that she had recently retired at 55 years old from her job as a 911 operator with the region where we worked and she was able to do so strategically through real estate investment. She had about four properties which she manages and recently, in the soaring economic market sold one that was almost paid off and netted almost a million. That money, coupled with her pension, is ok. She doesn't live extravagantly, she is comfortable. She was willing to help me strategize if I wanted, but as the case was, it's a professional environment. I am sharing this story because in caring for people, you care for yourself. She has given me knowledge that I would have searched for, she had freely shared with me a path to freedom she used herself. Being good takes as little effort as saying please and thank you. Being good takes as little effort as being there for the other person. Be good to others and you will gradually see that your internal system will change as well. Being mean, or bad to others often is a reflection of you not loving yourself. This evidence is shown in your attitude or behaviour towards others.  Be a ray of light in someone's cloud and one day, when your clouds are dark and thunderous, someone will give you that ray of hope. Be good to you. 

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