Just about broke my own heart today.
Tamara, Henele and I sat in sacrament today and we always play this game called Paperio. Its a challenging game and we take turns after one dies. Anyway, I sat there and while playing my turn, the game would freeze and we would get kicked out of the app all together or when I would make a move, the app wasn't responding with my move causing me to die.
I would still pass the phone as if I really died. I turned to Tamara while she was laughing at me knowing exactly what just happened and I would say, "this game is rigged." lol Me and Tarmara then had a quite extensive talk about what "being rigged" means.
Anyway, my turn came back around and of course, died not on my part. I then closed the app and decided, I'm gonna delete all these non sense games that we don't even play.
Now, Tamara and Henele both got Ipads for christmas. Most of the games on my phone sit dormant anyway cause all these games are now on their ipads. So I sat there deleting all the games that "I thought" were no longer being played.
Nope, I was wrong.
As they watched me delete game after game, I honestly didn't think it was a big deal. Until I deleted THAT GAME!
I turned to Henele who was in FULL ON TEARS! and I mean, trying to catch his breath type of crying. Completely, uncontrollable. I mean, given that we were in the Chapel, we did our best to keep calm. But as I tried to get things under control, I sat there wondering, "what the heck!" They don't even play on my phone anymore. "What just happened?"
I turn to Tamara while trying to sooth Hene and she says, "Mom! He worked hard on that game you just deleted. He's at a far level then he is on his Ipad."
My heart broke after hearing these words.
With me starting at this new job called SPS - Select Portfolio Servicing, I'm still currently in training and will still be for another 2 weeks or so. I think about all the studying and work I've been putting on myself and am quite proud of how far I have come thus far. I sit in this training this class and my coaches had approached me this week basically talking to me about "moving up" because they are impressed with how fast I am learning the job and performing.
I would hate for my hard work to not go unrecognized.
With that being said, I hate that I took away Henele's hard earned work. Yes, it might be a simple little kid game but that's just it. They are kids and they're current level is games. I don't ever want either Tamara or Henele to work hard FOR NOTHING.
So as soon as we got home today, I dropped everything once I got in the house and redownloaded his game and made sure that the game is left off where he had left off at. THANKFULLY it did. I showed it to him to confirm that his game is as it was and told him that I will never delete it again.
Moral of my post today - working hard also comes from playing hard. It doesn't matter how little the task may seem to you compared to someone else. Either way, give credit where it's due and don't allow someone else to rain on the hard work you've done.
XOXO Via
