I recently read this sweet book. It’s the story of an elderly woman who now is all alone in the world. She has no family and everyday she waits to die. She wants to die. She can’t find a reason to live.
Enter a tiny mouse lost in an old aquarium with hamster toys. Helen salvages the aquarium and doesn’t realize there is a mouse living inside.
They are both dying. The mouse because it’s sick and Helen because her will to live is gone. The big question is Can they save each other?
Sometimes I feel like Helen. No motivation to do anything. While I still have family they are far away and I can’t afford to live by either of them. So I wonder what I’m doing with my days.
Then I go to work and hug the kids I care for, take them to school, pick them up, spend time together and I go home happy.
Everyday is different. Some are more challenging than others but they are all worthwhile.
My life on an unexpected path 