Who Changes Everything Excerpt - Patricia - Elderly
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EnglishVoice Age
Senior (55+)Accents
African (General) North American (General)Transcript
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Who are you? Who am I? Well, I'm a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a friend, and now a grandmother. But I think you're asking what I do. Charlie, I am a teacher. I teach math. Would it be okay if I ask another question? One that might be a bit out of the line? Of course. I've worked here for years. I've seen people visit patients and none of them leave the way they do after they see you there. Happy. I'm sorry to ask this, but what's going on? What's happening? Oh, they're not happy. She watched as my head turned like a confused puppy on my brow, furrowed with confusion. I don't understand. And neither did I. Charlie. I spent my whole life knowing that there were certain rules, certain accepted patterns in the universe, simple rules. I could answer anything with equations and formulas. I was taught early on that my risk sponsor ability was to give more love than I received. So every day I did, I tried every day with everyone I met. Yet that's not how it works. Life's equation will not allow that love is a multiplier. The more you love the more you get. I spent my whole life trying to make sure I gave more than I got. It's an impossible task. Every time I gave love, I would get it back tenfold. Everything in life ISS As a 20 year old, this revelation felt like hip ing nonsense. It did not answer the question I had asked. It was mumbo jumbo that simply did not resonate. Then she continued on, They are not feeling happy with daily. They're feeling love with that. She gently reached out her hand and held my face and said, My dear Charlie, the world should be run by love and absolutely nothing more. That's why they're leaving. The way you see them, they're leaving full off. The love that share with me and I with them. They're not feeling happy when they li pay, are feeling loved. With that, she gently reached out her hand and held my face and said, My dear Charlie, the world should be run by love and absolutely nothing more. That is why they're leaving. The way you see them, they are leaving full of the love they share with me and I with them with that I started to cry to this day, this story makes me cry. It's one of the most powerful moments in my life, one that I rarely tell on stage. As she wiped the tears from my face, she continued. But not all love is the same. There are three types of love. Positive, negative and none. Charlie, which is the worst? Negative? None. This is why people stay in abusive relationships. Why we tell stories of how poorly we've been treated decades after the event, because at least it's something. At least for that moment we can feel something. This is why people hurt themselves and stay, even though they're getting her. We talked for hours and in between I was excusing myself as I had to run back and forth to the nurse's station. Two days later, she passed