An African lady

I don’t know if anyone knows here on my blog, but  I also work in healthcare next to my creative activities?  I work as a baby nurse and that makes me meet many many interesting woman. I think over the years I met 800 or 900 hundred women. Meeting so many woman created a special sense in me to feel a woman out just by looking each other in the eyes when I step in her front door for the first time. This week I stepped in a front door of a lady from Ghana, Africa. When I shook her hand I felt some sort of special energy going through me. I did not know what it meant..it just felt right. She was very very nice, and forthcoming..and also seemed like someone who liked to keep herself to herself, a private person I mean. She immediately made a strong and kind impression on me. That was the first day, we did not talk much then but today I came to her place the 4^thtime and somehow we got talking about life and life’s challenges.  The reason why I want to write about it is that behind that private façade is a woman who has an unbelievable wisdom. She told me anecdotes from her life and how she responded to them that blew me away.. her strength and in particular her wisdom was incredibly inspiring and uplifting...a single woman , raising two kids in an unfamiliar and even sometimes hostile country , of only 34 years old. Wow!!! I just had to share my gratefulness for meeting her and opening up to me, and my being in awe with her strength and wisdom....

Just a few examples of how she explained her view on life’s situations..

·        1.When you live with a tiger feed him what he likes to eat. Don’t touch him on the wrong spots..

·       2.When you want to argue your case in a fight be careful you don’t mix in ingredients to make your side of the story look sweeter..cause that’s lying.

·       3.When people would be able to feel the pain the other person is going through as if they were the ones living that pain themselves, no one would hurt another person anymore.

·       4.When someone attacks you verbally in an aggressive overruling way, just stay calm and look them in the eyes until they are finished. Then start to talk really slow and with soft voice... It’s as if you were walking into a place where a dog is barking, the only way to keep the dog from biting you is to stand still look at it and wait for it to finish. Why would this tactic only work on a dog, it works fine on humans as well..