Category: The Rave Board
Ever help some one and years later find out that they remember what you did even though you didn't feel it was such a big thing. Today I got a phone call from this guy named Matt. One year when I was working for the salvation army ringing a bell, we use to be picked up ina van and I rode with a bunch of other people. Alot of them were homeless. The this one day Matt had joined and he was a young kid in his 20's and had got in to town late so didn't have a plce to go and it was really cold and snowing. He was a stranger, I knew nothing about him, but some thing about him reminded me of my little brother so I told him he could come stay with us for the night. Well to make a long story short he just called me. It's been nearly 2 years and he still had our number. He called and wanted to thank us. He's doing well now has a home and a car. He says he wants to come see us. I got this warm fuzzy feeling all over. He said you know you didn't even know me, I looked tore up and you didn't judge me and let me into your home. I have never forgot that.
After the fact lol I did think a few times of how that could of turned really bad if he wss a psycho and being that I had kids it wasn't the smartest thing to do. But just some thing about this kid that I couldn't just walk away. lol The fact that he reminded me of my brother should of been enough to make me run the other way lol. Anyhow it was so cool to know htat some thing I did helped some one.
I agree you were taking a chance, and I'm really glad the outcome was as it was. However, before the synics start knocking you for your actions, those fuzzy feeling times are almost worth the chance, don't you agree?
When I worked for the state commission for the blind, I supervised a great group of technology specialists. One day we were planning to have a meeting, and, as usual, I was doing my last minute organization for it. I was in my office and the rest of the group was at the table a few feet from my door. I noticed that they were talking about who was the best supervisor they had ever had, and, of course I had to listen. I was unanimously voted the best supervisor they ever had. That unsolicited vote of confidence gave me the same kind of fuzzy feeling. Of course, reviews were coming up, and they may have planned for me to overhear them... but, I prefer to think not.
Thanks,
Bob
You really have to saver those kinds of things, because they don't come that often. i think they remind us of why we're hre. I used to be a rhabilitation teacher. There was one guy who really pushed my buttons, and I'm sure I did his, too. Well about four years after I worked with him, I got a phonecall from his internship supervisor in graduate school. She told me how much he thought of me, and made the comment that "If I'm Luke Skywalker, he's like Obee won Kenobey. I know I messed up that spelling, but it must have been ten years since that happened, and I still remember it.
awwww, i know the feeling!
Smile I had a Mobility teacher that use to pretend he was spider man. That stuck in my head forever. I remember looking really hard on the buildings to see if I could catch him haha. I was a kid but I realy did believe him cause how else did he get to the places before me haha. I wish I could tell him what a great teacher he was. Best Mobility teacher I have ever had. But the only thing that stuck in my head was spider man lol I don't remember his name. I think I was nick or I dunnno but a great man he was. I hope he is still around.
Yeah. It does feel good when things like that happen. I used to work in a school for severely challenged students, and one of the girls I worked with didn't talk, or at least I've never known her to talk when I was there; she mainly would just laugh or sometimes make other sounds. But when I went back to the school about a year later to visit, when I stepped into the classroom she was in, she said, "Leilani! Leilani! Yeah! Leilani!" Since I have never heard her speak more then one-syllabled words and didin't think my name had been mentioned enough at the time I was there for her to have remembered it, I was really happy that she rmemmbered my name! *smile* At another school, I had been spending time with another student,and after a few visits, on day a teacher told me that he had been in a bad mood beforeI'd came and didn't want to do anything, but his face lit up when he saw me. We really didn't do much together as I still wasn't sure what all we could do; he didin't talk at all and I couldn't get him to pay attention to with a book I was reading or to copy or do his own writing or drawing, so I mainly would bring puzzles or cause-and-effect toys and we would quietly use those. SO the fact that the students I worked with remembered me and showed they were happy to see me, even though I wasn't sure I had done much with or for them was cool. *smile*
augh that's sweet of you peak_a_boo.i remember helping a couple students in college who were having hard times.I remember 1 of them, was very ill in the hospital and she wanted us to send her notes so she can study for the final.So I volunteered to send her my notes.and she came and thanked me for everything.and another boy lost his study guide for an anthropology final exam. so i sent him a detailed study guide, and he came and thanked me for that. and he said he passed the final exam. so that helped. He also said he never expected such a reply so. i feel very fuzzy now heheheheheh.
Peek_a_boo, Interesting you should pick mobility instructors. That was my favorite thing to teach till my hearing got odd. Now my ears ring and whistle, and I don't think it ethical for me to show people how to cross streets when I've almost gotten myself hurt. You mentioned thnking your mobility instructor. I think one of the things that keeps me working in rehabilitation is there were so many many people that helped me along the way. Assuming some of them weren't dead, I'd probably be spending my life tracking them down to thank them all. The only way to really thank someone is to pass it on. Granted, I really like teaching, but you don't have to eb a professional to do that. This is sounding like a ramble for another post.
Lou
awww, how sweet! It does feel awesome knowing that extra step really does mean something to someone else. When I was a certified nurses assistant, one of my favorite residents didn't talk much. One day when i wasn't there he asked for me. His wife had to come and tell me all about it. he never even said her name. I didn't know if I believed this one. so I went in and said hi to him. and he said my name as I walked in the door. That was such an awesome feeling. Something I'll never forget!
I think that that's really cool. When I was in eighth grade, I remember one of the people who worked at the homeless shelter telling me that it's better to be taken advantage of a couple of times when you're trying to help someone instead of not helping an innocent person who really needs it, and I think that it's really cool that you reached out like you did to the stranger, and that he remembers that. Love RULES!!