Inequities in life....
I have a co-worker who I think is one of the bravest women I've ever met.
I first met Tonya through e-mail correspondence when applying for the new job. She was very helpful with information once I secured the position. She kept in constant contact with me, and helped me with my initial inprocessing paperwork once I started working at the new job.
Now, I am easily intimidated by beautiful women--and Tonya is exceptionally beautiful--so my communication with her has been completely of a businesslike nature. But during the past four months of working there, I've come to admire her a great deal.
Tonya and I have much in common--she is an Army veteran, she has an interest in history and a love of languages. But she's also had a very difficult life of it.
In a family of very bright and successful people, she is the one who is looked down on. Most of her siblings are doctors, academics and the like, while she is an executive secretary. She has two degrees, but is held back from many things she'd like to do because of being a single mother of two. She had a nasty divorce from her first husband--another Army veteran, and from all accounts, a total louse and waste of humanity. She's since re-married to a gentleman who is a computer programmer, who is a German national without a good grasp of English--and who is unemployed--however, he's a good man, a good father to her children, and the love they hold for one another is readily apparent.
I cannot understand how she can come to work and be so cheerful. She's constantly happy, and irrepressibly hopeful of the future, in spite of evidence to the contrary. Perhaps she hides her fears well, but when I look at how she deals with her day-to-day problems, the ones I have don't seem nearly as bad.
Somehow, the things Tonya is dealing with have got to improve. I certainly hope something better happens to her. Such courage cannot go unrewarded. The universe isn't that indifferent. Because Tonya and her husband deserve some happiness--or at least, contentment.
She is one of those people who doesn't do dramatic things, but simply lives with the mundane drudgery of real life by saying, "I'll do better tomorrow".
T-Bob
I first met Tonya through e-mail correspondence when applying for the new job. She was very helpful with information once I secured the position. She kept in constant contact with me, and helped me with my initial inprocessing paperwork once I started working at the new job.
Now, I am easily intimidated by beautiful women--and Tonya is exceptionally beautiful--so my communication with her has been completely of a businesslike nature. But during the past four months of working there, I've come to admire her a great deal.
Tonya and I have much in common--she is an Army veteran, she has an interest in history and a love of languages. But she's also had a very difficult life of it.
In a family of very bright and successful people, she is the one who is looked down on. Most of her siblings are doctors, academics and the like, while she is an executive secretary. She has two degrees, but is held back from many things she'd like to do because of being a single mother of two. She had a nasty divorce from her first husband--another Army veteran, and from all accounts, a total louse and waste of humanity. She's since re-married to a gentleman who is a computer programmer, who is a German national without a good grasp of English--and who is unemployed--however, he's a good man, a good father to her children, and the love they hold for one another is readily apparent.
I cannot understand how she can come to work and be so cheerful. She's constantly happy, and irrepressibly hopeful of the future, in spite of evidence to the contrary. Perhaps she hides her fears well, but when I look at how she deals with her day-to-day problems, the ones I have don't seem nearly as bad.
Somehow, the things Tonya is dealing with have got to improve. I certainly hope something better happens to her. Such courage cannot go unrewarded. The universe isn't that indifferent. Because Tonya and her husband deserve some happiness--or at least, contentment.
She is one of those people who doesn't do dramatic things, but simply lives with the mundane drudgery of real life by saying, "I'll do better tomorrow".
T-Bob