<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571902" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>She was in the profession</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She stopped her work at her lawn when she saw me<br>and leaned over the fence and we talked for over two hours<br>with my elbow on her posts and my feet resting <br>against the palings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>She had worked forty years in the same profession<br>and had seen generations through the doors. She<br>had enjoyed her work and people still call her to<br>tell her about themselves; they express their gratitude<br>and how much of a difference she had made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>She walked down the fence, waved her arms<br>and returned to the corner where I stood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But what was work for? <br>she asked.<br>Forty years doing what was good for others<br>but nothing that was good for myself.<br>What was work for? she sighed.<br>What were forty years for? It destroyed me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(from The Migrant - notes of a newcomer (February 1997- July 1998))</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Raj+Arumugam">Raj Arumugam</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571902" data-title="She was in the profession de Raj Arumugam" data-description="She stopped her work at her lawn when she saw me and leaned over the fence and we talked for over two hours with my elbow on her posts and my feet resting against the palings. She had worked forty years in the same profession and had seen gener..."></div> </div> </div>

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