My niece asked me why I am not in the swimming pool. I said it’s too cold. I could see the disappointment in her face so I said tomorrow ok la I would definitely be in the pool with her.
It reminded me that there’s a difference between doing something FOR someone vs doing something WITH someone.
For example, there’s a difference between sending some money to your mum so that she can buy presents for her birthday compared to taking her out bawak pergi shopping for her presents.
There’s a difference between sending your team for an external training compared to sama-sama buat the training together with them.
So the next day I was in the swimming pool WITH my niece. It was still cold but no chickening out this time. We went up and down the water slides at least 10 times.
I was tired. She was ecstatic. That made me ecstatic too.
So when you are about to do something for someone, see if you can make it even more better by doing it WITH them.
