Everyone is staying home now ... something no one is used to doing. Who would have thought 2020 would have begun like this? 2020 ... I loved seeing the year 2020 ... even numbers. I said at the beginning of the year it was going to be a wonderful year ... the numbers are beautiful to me.
Yes, many beautiful and good things are happening all over the world now. People are uniting in ways they couldn't have ever done before the pandemic/coronavirus/COVID-19. Our world had grown to be so fast-paced ... people rushing to work, after school activities, events, even sleeping to get up to do it all over again ... day by day. No one had time to stop to take time with families, friends, to speak to others. They had to hurry to get somewhere.
Today ... people are confined to their homes. Parents have become school-teachers ... children can't go to school. They are being close to the children they didn't have a lot of time to get close to. I'm thinking children and our pets ... love this! I hope parents are loving it too. They aren't used to spending so much time at home.
While we are in our homes ... so, so many are out on the frontline fighting an unseen enemy ... that is sadly taking many, many lives and sickening so many. They are doing without proper medical equipment, masks, ventilators. It's almost come to having to decide who lives, dies.
While this scary, terrible drama is going on in our whole world ... so many beautiful, good things are going on too. People caring, giving ... for others. People taking time to volunteer, to sew masks for the medical people ... to do so, so much. My Heart was warmed seeing people taking time to give our truck drivers meals to carry with them ... they truly are part of the very backbone of this country just as doctors, nurses, first responders ... law enforcement are. I think people are finally realizing this.
I have driven a tractor-trailer with my husband. I saw where truck drivers were taken for granted, not treated with respect when they went to the companies to do their pick-ups. The office staff would treat them like dirt, ignore them or speak hatefully to them. Some took satisfaction in doing so.
Now, I wonder if they are treating truck drivers with respect as they should have done before? They deserve it. They drive so hard to get to places on time ... sometimes, the delivery dates are 'almost impossible' causing the driver to not get rest, sleep. No one will ever know what a driver goes through if they've never been in the trucking world.
Not only that ... at rest stops, truck stops there are always scammers and others ready to prey on a driver to get his money. Sometimes they are robbed, beaten. Truck drivers are normally good-hearted, good people. Sure some are rough, gruff ... they are good people. Now, we are truly depending on the truckers who risk their lives just as our medical people, law enforcement ...everyone who comes in close contact with people.
It's so strange, even special ... to see so much good going on at the same time as all that isn't good is happening. We have everyday people who are for-real angels ... heroes ... they risk everything to help others. Why? They care so much ... from their Hearts. I pray for all of them. They truly are the ones who keep hope alive just as they work hard at keeping people alive. How special are they!
Thank you to all our everyday angels, heroes ... who are more than everyday people.
Note: Written by Gloria Faye Brown Bates
From my very Heart I can't thank all the people who are so tired from working to save others during this time ... and it looks to keep on for time to come. You are truly the angels, heroes in this world.
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