<\/p>\nShe added that her dream is to save enough money one day to take her daughter on a cruise. She wants her daughter to see how hard people work on the cruise ships and wants her to know how hard she works to provide for her. When she said this, I said to her, “I’m sure your daughter already knows how hard you work and appreciates you and admires you and looks up to you.”\n
<\/p>\nI know that none of us has to look far to find a story like this, where a parent is struggling to provide for their child and to make ends meet, but chatting with this proud woman with such a beautiful upbeat smile really struck me. Here I am with about 6000 people on a cruise ship, all of whom I have enough expendable cash to enjoy a vacation like this. However, last nights server is one of about 1500 crew members who have economic challenges that most of us cannot imagine.\n
<\/p>\nAnd yet, I’ll bet within only one or two weeks, everyone of us who will walk off this cruise ship\u00a0Sunday\u00a0morning will at some point complain about something in our lives. I only hope that when my turn comes to complain about some nonsense I will remember the woman who served us last night, who beamed about her six-year-old daughter who she doesn’t see much while she works so hard to provide for her, and her dream to bring her on a cruise one day.\n
<\/p>\nI guess it’s all about perspective.\n
<\/p>\nI wish everyone a wonderful, and reflective day.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello everyone. I thought I would share some of a chat that we had with the server at dinner last night. A bubbly and upbeat person, she was very open to conversation, so much so that I wondered whether or not other people in the restaurant were waiting for their food.\u00a0\u00a0She beamed when she spoke…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}