She was always quiet, lonely, with the same gray coat and a bag with a ripped castle. < img src = "https://zycie.news/crrops/57204f/620x0/1/0/2024/12/08/ibcypkkqgpnfhh24gbbamfusxxxxx4qqlm0uavylkw9.jpg" alt = "old lady @pexels" styles = "background-color: rgba (81,81,81,1)" > < p > m & oacute; not much, most often & ampquo; good morning & rdquo; and & do you pom & oacute; c &.

< p > at the beginning they were small things. Take garbage, bring shopping, pick up medicines from the pharmacy. And I ? I had time. Adult children, husband at work, house empty.

< p > I just felt sorry for her. Began to open.

< p > talked about her youth, that everyone left her. About lonely holidays. About diseases.

< p > I listened. Sometimes I brought soup. I helped clean the nurse before visiting.

< p > m & oacute; Wiła: < br />< br /> & amp. & AMP; BDQUO; You are like C & Amp; Oacute; Rka, which I have never had. < p > I believed. Because good comes back, truth ?

< p > but over time the requests turned into demands.

< P >& Amp; MDASH; & AMP; BDQUO; I need to paint the kitchen. & Amp; RDQUO; < br /> & amp. & AMP; BDQUO; Why can't you go shopping in the evening ? & < br /> — & AMP; BDQUO; You don't do anything anyway. ” < p > more and more often began with sentences: < br />< br /> & amp. & AMP; BDQUO; Since you have already got involved … &

< p > and kt After a few weeks of fatigue, your own problems and b & oacute; oacute; w & ndash; I said:

< p > — & AMP; Bdquo; Mrs. Heleno, I can't do it today. I have my own affairs. & Amp;

< p > silence. And then a cold look.

< p > — & AMP; BDQO; AHA. So if there is no benefit, you are not so good anymore. “& Amp;

< p > stuck me.

< p > — & but I don't want anything in return & & &

— & AMP; Bdquo; you are all like that. You pretend and then leave. No one can trust. < p > p & oacute; < p > that I cheated her. That I promised and now I'm denied. Nobody asked how it really was. Nobody thought that maybe this goodness had boundaries. That help is not an obligation, but a select & oacute; r.

< p > today we pass on a cage without a word.

< p > her look & ndash; hard, full of bitterness.

< p > and there is something in me that hurts more than fatigue: disappointment. Because I wanted to do well. Not for thanks. For man.

< p > but I understood that not everyone can accept good without pr & oacute; to seize all you.

< p > sometimes mercy leads straight into the trap of manipulation.

< p > and there is nothing left after it, only a quiet, empty staircase.

Natasha Kumar

By Natasha Kumar

Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116