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T Lost And Found
What’s your favorite comfort food?
here is nothing that I love more than my wife, my kids and my dogs. I consider myself a very lucky man and I thank God (whom I also love) for every
day that I have with them. Sure, it’s not perfect, but then nothing really is. And if there’s any reason to be thankful for the pandemic, it’s that we took too much for granted and need to appreciate the things that too often are overlooked.
That being said, here is a recent incident during which I tried my best not to get bent out of shape over something petty. In the past, one of my biggest pet peeves was that my wife and daughter never put things back where they got them from. For example, we use two different remote controls to operate our living room TV. One is for our cable box and the other for our smart TV. We found that if we leave the remote lying around, our “kolohe” dog Wilson (Buddy is an angel) will take the remote and chew it up. I had a brilliant idea and stuck two strips of Velcro on the wall next to my chair and stuck both remotes to the wall. Seems so easy to hang them up there. Enter my wife and daughter.
SOLIVEN LANSANGAN
Physical Therapist, Pearl City
“Top Ramen noodles because it’s cheap, but still tastes great!
YIM KWOK
Business Owner, Honolulu
“Noodle soups like pho or saimin because they warm my body and soul.”
REX FREITAS
City Bus Driver, Pauoa Valley
“Chicken bitter melon from Jane’s Fountain (in Liliha).
I can eat this bitter melon dish every day.”
SARAH LI
Dental Hygienist, Honolulu
“Spam musubi. It’s the
No. 1 thing I crave when I’m off-island. No matter where I go, that’s the taste of home.”
For whatever reason, it’s too inconvenient to return the remotes back to their Velcro resting places, so I’ll find them behind the couch cushions or in Wilson’s mouth. I’m the one who keeps putting them back (in a way, I’m enabling them. But it’s a minor issue in the scope of things so I let it go.
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Life Is Hard S For A Reason
omeone said to me this week, “I hate feeling sad.” Another said, “I wish I didn’t have all this pain.” Life is not easy with its emotional chal-
lenges. Yet, I see a purpose beyond the personal growth we eventually get from going through our hardships.
Have you ever experienced something and later re- alized that had you not, you would not have compas- sion for what another is going through? I think that our own painful experiences serve to deepen our capacity for humility, consideration and empathy.
We are not meant to avoid things like fear, grief, sadness or pain, as they are human experiences that serve multiple purposes — one of which is connection and consideration for others, something we can’t have too much of these days.
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The other day, my antennae went up when I heard my wife say, “My debit card is missing!” She further explained that she gave it to our daughter to buy lunch at a drive-thru fast-food restaurant. When our daughter brought back the food, she returned the card. But rather than returning the card immediately back to her wallet, my wife put it down with the intention of putting it away later.
Channeling my new attitude, I calmly told her to retrace her moves. Perhaps it was in her pants pocket or in her lunch bag or purse. Nope, not there and my identity theft alarm went off in my head. She seemed really casual about it say- ing, “It’s probably on my desk. I’ll just check on Monday when I go to work.”
It was the weekend from hell for me, as I started antici- pating someone draining our money from the account. On Monday, I called her and asked if she found it. She said no, that she even checked the garbage, but to no avail. She calm- ly said, “It’ll turn up.” I told her to call the bank and cancel her card, which she did. An hour later, she called me saying, “I found it! I inadvertently put it in the school’s bank deposit bag. See? It was safe and I told you it would turn up!”
I wanted to make a snide remark but couldn’t because I had already bitten right through my tongue.
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