Practicing from the Heart in the age of Technology - All articles and poems are by Reza Ghadimi, unless otherwise noted.
Grandma used to say: Never go to a restaurant where the cook is not fat.
If you want something done quickly, ask a busy person to help you. Never criticize something you don't do yourself. Look at the poor around you before putting that first spoon in your mouth. A lot of truth to all that. The old timers spoke from experience. Today’s technology, though, isolates people and makes criticizing things we know nothing about, easy. The Chinese vernacular; "to know someone, walk a mile in his shoes." is sage advice. But many of us would rather criticize that person's shoes than to walk in them. Providing healthcare is something everyone has an opinion about. How many books have been written about raising children by those who have none, or on losing weight by slim people? And worst of all, health organizations being managed by lawyers and accountants. But unless you have sat next to a worried mother of a child with a 103 fever or watch hopelessly as the life drains from the face of a fourteen-year-old boy who has been stabbed, you cannot appreciate the enormous responsibility of healthcare providers doing their job. For when the eyes of a desperate mother in El Paso, or a dying teenager in the South Bronx or a wounded soldier in a foxhole is on you, all the politics, rationalizations, logic, excuses, and justifications will matter not. Legislating bodies start work this month. It behooves us to contact our representatives and ask them to help our world by passing laws that benefit everyone. I am sure that their grandmas had similar advice for them. They just need to be reminded of it.
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