Wow. I went to a massage therapist yesterday. I had been in a car collision - someone hit my truck on the driver's side and I had been thrown back and forth sideways. Anyway, I go to this massage therapist to help with the last of my care, and my mind is on the fact that I don't have much money, I don't have Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage on my insurance, and this massage therapist will excuse me from paying until the other driver's insurance will pay (at the end of the claim period). Well, going to my appointment, I find this therapist is working out of her home. The home, as I come to it, is an older mobile home. I walk in, and it is not fancy. I go into the massage room and it is not a fancy massage bed set up in what looks like what should have been the master bedroom, but has been turned in to an office, with the massage table in the middle. A bit deeper into the conversation, I learned she is unmarried at the time, unemployed, just restarting massage, just started taking insurance, has put herself through online school but cannot find an employment, and is supporting five children on nothing but child support. She let me walk out, without paying. She did not ask for payment based on her faith that things would all work out, that she would be paid in time. I promised her more than once I would make good if the insurance company did not, but she kindly blew me off.
I wish the lesson she is teaching could reach us all. Have faith in our fellow humans, and even more faith that no matter what, it will all work out.
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