Starting from the Bottom

                This weeks reading was pretty interesting to me I actually enjoyed reading it. It was about a lady who was new to a maid service, and trying to make ends meet. This story sound so much like the ones my parents have told me about themselves when they were growing up and trying to make it. I can respect the fact of someone working hard to make a simple living for themselves even if its not something they would prefer to do. I remember my mother telling me stories of how my grandma had to go to various peoples home and clean up the many messes they made. She would tell me how she had to get on her hands and knees, just as the women in the story did, to scrub the floors, to ensure they were absolutely spotless. A job like that is not something everyone can do, or is even equipped to do, for that my hat goes off to anyone who actually does such a job every day. In my opinion when someone is able to do such a job like that, or working at a fast food restaurant or anything where its looked down upon, that’s respectable to me. Both of my parents had jobs like that where they literally had to start from the bottom, by earning their own living to get themselves through school. They worked hard every day nonstop to get to where they are now. Hearing how my parents had to do that just to make it through life is really inspiring to me. When I hear of such stories of anyone coming from the bottom of the barrel to becoming the cream of the crop, I aspire after that, those are the stories I yearn to see and hear. So whenever I hear of anyone like the one in the story I don’t look down on anyone but instead I applaud her for striving and working hard even if that’s not something she ever really wanted to do.