Helping Without Knowing

Yesterday, I ran into someone that I had recently rebuilt and fixed their computer. They said, "I wanted to thank you. You helped me keep my sanity, by fixing my computer. You see I was extremely sick. In fact I'm still recovering. Though I had friends coming by and supporting me, I used the computer to communicate with people, play games and just occupy my mind. But since it was broken and I didn't have one, I was kind of cut off. Because of my sickness, I was just getting more and more depressed. But when the computer came, I could reconnect and do some things that I wanted to do and it influenced me into feeling better."

Hearing what this person had to say, I must admit that I was shocked and not-shocked at the same time. Shocked that I had no idea about her illness or what she has been going through and not shocked, because I know there is a "force" that connects everything to everything else. When we are listening, we reach out to people in just the so-called "right" way without even really knowing it. Eido Tai Shimano Roshi used to say, "As much as you think you are choosing your life, life is also choosing you." True is True.

Reflectively, I am glad to know that what skills I have, can be of help to someone else and make a difference. I was helping someone, without really knowing. For me there is nothing bigger than this, after all we are all one.

Gassho,

Jaye Morris, Curator
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