Generosity is important. Giving of yourself just to see the smile on someone's face is one of the most rewarding things you can do for someone.
But showing gratitude is even more important. I spent the day with someone who, though hurting, went out of her way to express her deepest gratitude for my efforts to comfort her, in spite of her inability to communicate her gratitude nonverbally. It brought me great joy to know that I had succeeded in what I had gone up there to do.
Its just so freaking impressive how starkly genuine people stand out against their pain. It's not even that they wield their ingenuity as a means of healing.
They don't even know that they have it.
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