2/9 holidays

 

I cried when I heard the sentence: "This ceremony company gives each of your 2 million, I know this time some of you will come back to family, some of you don’t. If you do, buy a box of delicious tasty cake for your parents. And the one who will not come home, remember to make a call to your family. "

This is the second 2/9 holidays of me at Saxa. Last year, and this year, though Mid-autumn was not classified into celebration, we still received appreciation from the company. I know that's her excuse to teach us how to love our family, by our presence, by the gift that we bought for our parents.

After she sent envelopes for each person, everyone said thank to her. Only me who turned to the computer screen, silently cried. I don’t know if there are anyone who has the same feeling with me. Mid-autumn in the Centre is very amazing. It was the time we play lantern with friends. When we came older, we sat together with our family and ate mid-autumn cake. It is my childhood, but in that time, I’d never thought that I could stay far away from my country, so I had to try my best to remember those memories. Although that feeling still stay strongly in my heart. Maybe, it is the price that people who live too fast and listless have to receive. Thus, when I heard boss said: “…  the one who will not come home, remember to make a call to your family…” my ears were buzzing, and I couldn’t handle my emotions.

I like the prize money. Before, with me, prize money was the obligation that company is supposed to do for the employees. So everytime I got it, I was complacent a little bit. Sometimes I wonder why it didn’t raise more. But having been in Saxa for 2 years, I don’t know when did those thought go away. In Saxa, we are rarely punished. But the prize money always come suddenly and surprisingly.  Each time of “suddenly”, was the even that we learned to give and take love. Because of it, 2/9 holidays every year we were always received double prize money, for the mid-autumn celebration too. Boss gave us love from her heart, and asked us to buy delicious cakes ourselves for our family. She always told us to call home frequently, yell at us that never neglect our parents, never stop being thankful to this life. Because of those advices, our teammate Erick always spent 1 hour to call for his mom in Kien Giang every Sunday while he’d not made just one call to family before.

I know that everyone in Saxa will pay attention and remember the speech of boss than the prize money. I remember that I read a book named “Messages from Water”, the author Masaru Emoto stressed that, gratitude is even more important than love. Perhaps because of it, this afternoon, I felt the spiritual gift that we received from the company is so great that I thought it was the very very large amount.  Now I understand why I changed when I’m at Saxa. It is because I gradually learned how to let go, and respect the give of other people in here.

Luong Jasmine – From Saxa’s growing handbook.