Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

In talking to my friend on the phone last night I was struck yet again by her amazing aunt, over 100 years old, who recently lost her best friend and now has lost her son, every parent's nightmare.  She is so brave and resilient and went to her volunteer work helping feed the poor soon after learning of her son's death.  She told her niece that these people still needed to be fed, no matter what was happening in her own life.  Wow.  Her ego and grief did not get in the way of being compassionate toward others.  She is a Bodhisattva, no doubt about it.  What a mystery it is how some people accept what is so and others fight with their "fate" and cannot see themselves in the context of the whole of humanity and sentient beings.  How lovely for my friend she has this role model and can herself help her aunt and listen to her, which is so important as we age.  My friend is blessed with this relative, and I feel blessed hearing about her.  She inspires me.