What grandma taught me about doing life

I doubt my grandma died thinking she didn’t have or make an impact.

In fact, I know she didn’t.

She believed in being good to people and helping them – and that, that she did well, even if she had to cuss them out occasionally.

I can’t tell you the exact day I met my grandmother.

One very visible memory I have though is hearing her voice in our living room and running out to her because I knew, even as a five/six year old, that that voice came with a person who would hug me – one of few who could or was allowed to.

And her smile, Oh goodness her smile.

It was with all this in mind that I’d blitz through the hallways. I would do this even when I knew she’d first offer Choco Milo which I hated but nobody seemed to remember. But, whatever the next goodie was, I’d gulp it down because I ate everything, except Choco Millo of course. And I’d rest momentarily in her warm embrace (and bountiful bosom too!).

Her embrace was a steady presence for me in my here-this-weekend-gone-the-next lifestyle of a child with separated parents.

Somebody once said that “The fastest blue-line path to a better world isn’t economic growth or a better phone, but more of us becoming irrationally passionate about the wellbeing of a child that isn’t our own.” I hear him. Somebody, by the way, is Prof. Scott Galloway.

I’ve come to realize that this is the reason why I don’t aspire to ‘being famous’ or popular, although there was a time i thought I wanted that. I just want to help families be able to afford the little joys and luxuries that allow them to make moments like this. To stay home and just commune and not always be out there trying to hustle one thing or the other in endless sacrifice.

There’s more to life for many but if only I could do this little thing, be part of making this happen for families, gosh, it would make me even more happy and blessed than I know I already am. It’s the overflow I’m seeking.

So, It’s why I’m doing this. It’s why I do this. It’s why I am so fascinated by, engrossed in and concerned about what it means to actually improve living standards and what kind(s) of environment allows people to create and experience for themselves that freedom and happiness.

That’s why, or so I think on days like this at least…

Anyway, I say all this to say I miss my grandma.

Ok bye. And hello if you’re new!

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Marie-Noelle is the creator and curator of Noelle Wonders - a blog created to pose questions, exchange ideas, explore power asymmetries, and humanize topics around growth and development.