A Sweet Memory In Pecenongan
When we were eating in the open air eating place in Pecenongan, a middle classed housewife, decently dressed was selling shrimp crackers from table to table. All the guests coldly, indifferently, proudly refused. Disappointed, downhearted, she suppressed her feelings as she had to “climb down so deep” to become a vendor selling crackers and she went away.
My wife waved her back as she remembered a similar treatment when people refused to buy her self baked snacks at that time, to save, support us, her family who were living in a hard time. She bought two parcels of shrimp crackers. But for the woman who was in straitened circumstances (remember, there’s no middle classed housewife ever wants to humble herself selling shrimp crackers as a vendor), it was a lot, it was so sweet, so encouraging, so heartening, it was like a heavenly gift though she only succeeded to earn Rp. 2.000.-.
Only those who are visited by hardships, know the blessings, of happiness, of gratitude for small things, a little kindness. A happy beam lit up her face and we went home with a sweet memory of her.
When life is on the dark side, then there certainly is a sunny side on the other side but not seen as on the two sides of a leaf in the sun.
From Berita Buana, October 19, 1993
When we were eating in the open air eating place in Pecenongan, a middle classed housewife, decently dressed was selling shrimp crackers from table to table. All the guests coldly, indifferently, proudly refused. Disappointed, downhearted, she suppressed her feelings as she had to “climb down so deep” to become a vendor selling crackers and she went away.
My wife waved her back as she remembered a similar treatment when people refused to buy her self baked snacks at that time, to save, support us, her family who were living in a hard time. She bought two parcels of shrimp crackers. But for the woman who was in straitened circumstances (remember, there’s no middle classed housewife ever wants to humble herself selling shrimp crackers as a vendor), it was a lot, it was so sweet, so encouraging, so heartening, it was like a heavenly gift though she only succeeded to earn Rp. 2.000.-.
Only those who are visited by hardships, know the blessings, of happiness, of gratitude for small things, a little kindness. A happy beam lit up her face and we went home with a sweet memory of her.
When life is on the dark side, then there certainly is a sunny side on the other side but not seen as on the two sides of a leaf in the sun.
From Berita Buana, October 19, 1993
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