Mrs paquito was living her last days in a hospital because she suffered from an incurable lung disease that even made her lose her voice her son wilmer visited her frequently and one of these occasions he noticed that his mother became uneasy when one of her nurses entered her room immediately the man suspected that something bad was happening well his mother had appeared with
Bruises on her body so determined to find the truth he installed hidden cameras and what he discovered was truly shocking mrs paquita is one of those unfair cases in which people who don’t smoke end up paying for the consequences for those who do well she didn’t have any vice but in her patterns they were compulsive smokers and she inhaled all that smoke for 30 long years until her lungs began to
Collapse akita was a humble girl who began to work at an early age with her mother collecting scrap metal in a cart through the main streets of the city to later sell it and obtain income that allowed her to feed herself with the two other children of the lady who had been abandoned by her partner pakita never complained about that fate so she worked with great dedication with her mother and promised that she would
One day get a better job to support her and that she would no longer go around collecting scrap metal the lady listened to her attentively and simply smiled months before she was 15 years old a neighbor told pekita that the house where she worked at needed someone to clean the bathrooms only and the salary was not negligible so the teenager with her mother’s permission showed up for work and seeing
That she was very efficient they hired her to take care of general cleaning she thus began to work and as the years progressed the bosses had more confidence in her to the point that they trained her to be a kind of assistant in the sense that she was in charge of house purchases payments going to the bank to withdraw and deposit money among other trusted functions thanks to that work pekita was able to fulfill her mother’s promise that she
Would keep her as a queen well the lady no longer went out to work she had her food assured she’d improved the house and in reality her standard of living was very good she even had enough to support her siblings later the owner of the house asked pikita to be a kind of companion thus the young girl began to frequent the social circle to accompany the lady who bought her fine dresses shoes that she never imagined she could wear even
Jewelry the lady introduced her to society as a niece of hers and she accompanied her almost always both the wife and the husband had the habit of smoking so piquita began to inhale third-party smoke from a very young age and that’s how her lungs gradually became ill even though she never had a cigarette in her mouth in social events to which she accompanied her employer she met fidel
The son of some neighbors of the mansion who fell in love with pekita but only deluded her made her pregnant and disappeared from her life from that relationship wilmer was born for whom she worked all her life mrs pekita the boy he trained academically and became a great veterinarian he worked in the capitol however despite his distance from her he was always aware of his mother when his lung disease was
Discovered there wasn’t much to do and he stopped working upon learning that the medical problem advanced into her cough she was uncontrollable the specialist recommended that she be admitted to the chronic pulmonary diseases sanatorium so that she could be better cared for wilmer admitted to her and at the beginning he was happy with the care he had for his mother there
Until months later the lady lost her speech and it was him that began to notice her strange behavior every time nurse lucy came to her room wilmer felt that miss pekita wanted to tell him something about it that woman in the last straw that spilled the glass when he arrived and found his mother with bruises and when entered the nurse she became restless and tried to speak wilmer immediately left the room and
Went to the site manager to ask him to investigate the nurse the doctor wanted to explain some things to him but the man was very angry he just left the office and came back in the afternoon to see his mother without saying anything else a week later he came back and was told by the director that he had hidden cameras installed and that he wanted to review the content of them when they hooked up the footages and
Records from the camera to the computer wilmer couldn’t believe it he began to cry and when lucy the nurse arrived at the office the man fell on his knees before her he wept without saying a single word in the video the woman appeared filling the lady with pampering hugging her until she fell asleep she read her some stories and even she came to take care of her when she was not on her shift because she reminded her a lot of her
Mother lucy had lost her mother 20 years ago and believed she saw her and miss paquita so she took extreme care of her worried about feeding her and stayed with her even when she should have been at her house resting for work for this reason the lady was so reassured when she watched her enter the room and wilbur was really sorry because he found out that the bruises were due to the lady having fallen out of the
Bathroom wilbert not only apologized to lucy but he also assigned her an extra salary one of the chinese proverbs says if you want to be happy for an hour go take a nap go fishing if you want to be happy for a day or two if you want to be happy for a year you should inherit a wealth if you want to be happy for the rest of your life help someone
Since ancient times the greatest thinkers have all advocated the same conclusion happiness may be obtained by assisting others as a result we learnt at a young age that it was better to give than to get the old saying is ingrained in our minds from the moment we bite into the first slice of a shared birthday cake is there however a deeper truth hidden behind the truism
The answer is a resounding affirmative anecdotal evidence suggests that giving is a powerful pathway to personal improvement and long-term satisfaction scientific studies provide solid facts to support the claim we now know that giving activates the same areas of the brain that are excited by food and sex thanks to advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging fmri experiments have found evidence that
Altruism is encoded in the brain and that it’s a pleasurable emotion to experience giving back to others may very well be the key to living a life that’s not just happier but also healthier wealthier more productive and more meaningful however it’s vital to note that giving is not always a pleasurable experience giving may leave us feeling empty and taken advantage of and this is entirely possible
Some suggestions to assist you give not until it hurts but until it feels fantastic are as follows one discover your life’s purpose our giving should be motivated by our own personal passions it’s not the amount of money we give that matters but the amount of love we put into our giving it’s only normal that we’ll be more concerned with this and less concerned
With that and that’s just okay what we choose should not only be the right thing to do but it should also be the right thing for us as an individual two dedicate some of your time the gift of time is typically more precious to the recipient and more fulfilling to the giver than the gift of money it’s often more difficult to donate time the money
We don’t all have the same amount of money but we all have time on our hands and we can all give part of that time to help others whether that means devoting our entire lives to service or simply giving a few hours each day or a few days a year to charitable endeavors donate to organizations with well-defined goals and outcomes according to harvard scientist michael norton giving to a cause that specifies what they’re doing with your money leads
To more happiness than giving to an umbrella cause where you’re not sure where your money’s going four look for ways to combine your personal interests and abilities with the needs of others giving without expecting anything in return can quickly become overwhelming in the absence of natural survival impulses according to adam grant author of give and take
In order to be otherish which he describes as being willing to give more than you receive well yet keeping your own interest in mind you must first understand yourself five take a proactive approach rather than a reactive one we’ve all experienced the anxiety that comes with being coerced into making a donation such as when friends ask us to contribute to their fundraising
Campaigns in these situations we are more inclined to give in order to avoid embarrassment than we are to offer out of charity and compassion this style of offering will not leave you with a pleasant glow feeling instead it will most likely leave you with resentment instead we should set aside some time to reflect on our alternatives and identify the most appropriate charity to support
Based on our principles 6. do not succumb to the pressure of guilt into making a donation i don’t want to dissuade people from donating to worthy charities simply because doing so doesn’t always make us feel better what a miserable opportunistic society it would be if we just donated in order to receive something in return for every donation we made
However if we feel compelled to donate because we’re feeling guilty it’s likely that we will not be highly dedicated to the cause over time the important thing is to discover a method that works for us when we do the more we give the more likely it is that we’ll find meaning purpose and happiness in our lives all the things that we seek in life but find so difficult to come by friends wilmer’s distrust led him to
Discover a great truth and to regain faith in humanity because in life not everything is evil there are still good people capable of selflessly giving themselves to others this is where our story ends today, thanks for reading.