My friend and next door neighbor just called me to make sure I was OK and ask if I needed anything.
Her son is the young man who often carries up my groceries. But lately, he's been working and busy at school. So I've been managing on my own.
Anyway, I'm a very independent person. I learned how to be that way from the time I was 13 years old and went to live with my single daughter and her 4 children. I was the "mother" and she was the "father".
So my friend ran down the list of what she could share. She said, "I have 2 cases of water, I can share, I have 2 packages of toilet paper and I made my own hand sanitizer. I can share it all with you."
I said, "Well, I have 4 cases of water (I only drink a specific kind), I have plenty of toilet paper AND lots of hand sanitizer.
So, I told her thanks but you keep your water and toilet paper. I told her that I will put on the front porch a large unopened bottle of hand sanitizer and if she needs anything else to please call me.
I'm sure many of you know of and have offered up whatever you have and can to your neighbors.
When I told my girls about the neighbor calling, they laughed and said, "Mom, does she know you". I laughed and said, well I guess her son never mentioned all of the water and stuff he brings into my house normally before all of this started.
I like specific toilet paper, specific bottled water and use hand sanitizer by the pints. I always have. Remember.....germaphobe.
It's wonderful how we can and do all help each other. My neighbor is first generation American. She is so kind and sweet. She's taught me so much about her Mother country, it's people, foods and so on.
Anyway, I posted because for a long time now there has been so much doom and gloom, we all need to be reminded about the goodness in all of us.
My daughter told me last week that her 3 teenagers told her that generation feels the doom and gloom and sadness.
My daughter was upset that she didn't think they realized how serious this was. That's when they told her about their feelings of doom and gloom.
But I told her it won't last. This feeling of doom and gloom will disappear and they'll be testing her and their boundaries again before she knows it.
It's the nature of the youth to take chances and not realize the danger. It's because your children are involved that they do realize it's necessary to be in that mode now; but, like I said, it will change back.
We're going to get through this in this country.
I've never liked being around people who are precise, feel such a sense of doom and gloom and so quickly grasp and realize danger.
I've always been someone who sees the glass 1/2 full.
My oldest daughter is the opposite. My point is it takes people with various personalities to make this country great.
You have no idea what I've been hearing from my oldest daughter since .....December. Yep! December, she started in on this. Not this exact thing but something was going to disrupt things. Then it was "I've been hearing from friends in other countries...they've been seeing signs". And on and on!
My favorite thing is the way companies are stepping up. The liquor industry is making hand sanitizers. The automative industry is making breathing apartus, Hanes is now making masks instead of underwear.
Americans pull together when necessary.
When we took a month and traveled all over Europe, this was back around 1998 we saw people's faces when they heard us that we were American. I had some fun conversations with people who hadn't traveled much. The one thing I heard was that they'd love to visit America one day.
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