My meaningful life with small good deeds/Carlos Pueblo

 My meaningful life with small good deeds/Carlos Pueblo

Once I have learned that a real Buddha is to live in a meaningful life and I decide to define that is consisted with small good deeds. I shall explain two current examples and a fond memory of a joint effort with my late pet dog Charlie. Escorting my son Arthur to any places, arranging a tennis game when needed, and helped a home care nurse to catch a run away dog with my late dog Charlie.

Recently, I have a constant chore to escort my son Arthur to every place where he needs to be un-desired. Arthur is not good at driving on Houston freeways and streets. He can do well only to and from work. I don't mind to drive him around because that I have nothing important to do nowadays. I drove him to his grand jury select duties at the Astrodome several times, I drove him twice to a drug store out side of the city limit to get his vaccine shots. Now, I am driving him to get his retinal detachment fixed. These escorting him around have made me feel good and meaningful, at least I am doing something to satisfy myself as a parent. Parenting is for life not ending at a child's age of 18, 22, or whenever people and the society decide.

I am organizing our daily tennis game now. There are 8 players rotated on seven morning. I am the one to check on the weather and the court condition, to make up the fourth player each time one is not available. Now, I have added three more alternatives into our rotation. One Mandarin group member calls me the leader. In deed I am the one. I also manage the used tennis balls to distribute them to my darling pet dogs friends on the neighborhood. 

One day at the beginning of my long term unemployment, I walked with Charlie at our neighborhood. I saw a small white dog escaped when a homecare nurse answered the door. We decided to pursue the escaped. Finally, Charlie had cornered the little dog at a green lawn between two buildings. I held that sweet thing back home. The nurse was very appreciated with our effort because that she didn't know what to do. I described it to our fellow neighbors when Charlie was still alive and this was how I learned the English words good deeds.

There is only 24 hours a day and my sleeping time is more than 10 hours a day and I don't believe that I have the luxury to keep my bad habit of arguing because that I don't have very much time to last. By doing some good deeds in life makes more fond memory and more peaceful during my late life. I have had more friends including pets.