选择 (Choice)

I was watching star awards earlier on and heard this Chinese song called 选择.

This is part of the lyrics that I really liked.

 

我一定会爱你到地久到天长
我一定会陪你到海枯到石烂
就算回到从前这仍是我唯一决定
我选择了你, 你选择了我
这是我们的选择

 

I would love you to be a long time to everlasting
  I will accompany you to the sea to dry rotten stone
Even back in time this is still my only decision
  I chose you, you chose me
This is our choice

 

A beautiful love song that talks about commitment to love each other because they have made the CHOICE to do so. And I thought how true it is. True love is more than a fleeting feeling. It is about being COMMITTED TO THE CHOICE that you've made.

"True love is about commitment. It is valuing the total person, not just the part where it feels good at the moment. It is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. It is a decision, a judgement and a promise" -Author unknown

Welcome to the world...

"I had innocently stumbled into the real world while holding tightly to my... ideals. In response, the world laughed at my tender heart, mocked my deepest desires, and trampled on my treasured dreams."

Leslie Ludy, from her book Authentic Beauty

And that was how we entered the world.

A moment to remind you why you chose nursing...

 

 Yesterday one of my patient was complaining of severe pain.

He couldn't sleep. He sat up, fidgety, restless, and nauseated because of the pain.

He started hitting his head because it was so painful.

I felt sorry for him and held his hand

I called the doctors hoping that they could help.

They ordered painkillers which I promptly gave.

The pain was still there.

I suggested icepack. He agreed.

I placed the ice pack on his shoulder.

I wanted to bandage the icepack so it could stay in place without me holding.

At that moment he said,

"Missy, don't go, keep me company... talk with me"

*heart melt moment*

So, I stayed. I held the icepack on his shoulder and stayed with him.

I was silent, not knowing what to say.

He seemed less fidgety.

He fell asleep after a long while.

 

It was,

a moment to remember.

to know that just being there brought some comfort to them, 

in the midst of their pain.

 

 It was the same feeling I felt when I was just a child, probably about 6/7 years old

I remembered there was this child, probably abt a year old or so who cried bcos of the roaring thunder

My first reaction was to hug her

And she stopped crying in my embrace

It just felt so, so, so good.

 

I realise there is great joy in giving, in bringing a little comfort, a little joy, a little love to someone who needed it.

 

It was for those moments, I chose to become a nurse. Sadly, such moments don't happen everyday, don't they?

Zzzz

I am so tired.
I miss you.

LOVE

has a way of making the simplest of all things (like eating) refreshing...

Rested

After almost 2 weeks of draining weeks, from rushing assignment to planning dates to work to dates to meetups to gatherings...

I was feeling so tired.

I am glad still for moments in dates, special few ppl in gatherings to talk to and pkc.. Physically tired but emotionally refreshing. It always refresh me when I am able to share my life and to have another share theirs with me.

Most of all, I wanna thank God for rest.

Thank God for time today to talk to Him, to read the word and to clear my room.

Rested. (: