Woman In an Ice Cream Shop

On Mothers Day I went to Kelly Park with my mom, aunt, and grandma, to go look at a small exhibit on World War 2. We walked through the exhibit and I loved talking to my grandma about things that she experienced during the time of the war. I learned a lot of new things that I had never known my grandma had gone through. 

After we were done walking through the exhibit and talking we went to get ice cream at a small shop in the park. After we had ordered a woman asked "can you pleas had me some napkins, thank you." I grabbed the napkins, looked down to hand them to her and saw and older woman maybe in her 60's in an electric wheelchair with a neck brace on. My family and I went to sit and eat the ice cream and when all of the large groups of people left I realized that that woman come there alone. I could see her sitting across the room staring off into space. I looked at her for a while and noticed that she had the kind of brace you get when you sprain or break your wrist, and she had one for each wrist. She just sat their for while after finishing her ice cream thinking, staring off into space. 

Seeing her made me sad at first to think that an old woman in an electric wheelchair with braces on each wrist and one for her neck was sitting in an ice cream parlor alone on mothers day. As I thought about her more I decided that I admired her independence and determination. To be honest if i was her physical situation I would have sat at home, sulked, and done nothing. But this on woman, who I knew nothing about and said maybe two words to has such incredible strength and will to rise above self- pity and continue enjoying her life no matter what her circumstances are.