I ētahi rā, ka roa rawa te rārangi mahi. Ka tangi te waea, ka tae mai ngā īmēra, ka tatari ngā tamariki, ka mahara tonu te hinengaro ki ngā mea kāore anō kia oti. I aua wā, he uaua te rongo i te reo iti o te tinana e kī ana: “E hoa, me whakatā koe.”
Ehara te whakatā i te tohu ngoikore. He wāhanga nō te oranga. Ka rite ki te whenua i muri i te ua: me whai wā kia mimiti, kia mahana anō, kia tupu ngā mea hou. Ki te kore he wā mō te hā, ka pīkauria e te ngākau ngā taumaha katoa.
Te hā iti i waenganui i te mahi
Kāore e hiahiatia he hararei nui i ngā wā katoa. I ētahi rā, he meneti kotahi noa iho ka āwhina. Tū ki te taha o te matapihi. Titiro ki te rangi. Inu wai. Whakapā atu ki te tangata e arohaina ana. Kōrero māhaki ki a koe anō: “Kei konei ahau. Ka taea e au te mahi kotahi i tēnei wā.”
He rautaki iti ēnei, engari he mana tō rātou. Ka hoki mai te manawa ki tōna tere tika. Ka heke iho te ngangau o te hinengaro. Ka kitea anō te ara i mua i a koe.
Te whanau me te manaakitanga
I roto i te whanau, he maha ngā tangata e tiaki ana i te katoa engari ka wareware ki a rātou anō. Ko te manaakitanga tūturu, ehara i te tuku i tō kaha katoa kia pau. Ko te manaakitanga tūturu he ako hoki ki te kī: “Me noho puku au mō tētahi wā poto, kia hoki mai taku kaha.”
Mēnā ka kite ngā tamariki i ngā pakeke e whakatā ana me te kore whakamā, ka ako hoki rātou. Ka mōhio rātou kāore te uara o te tangata e whanganga ana ki te nui o ngā mahi kua oti. He mea nui hoki te noho, te whakarongo, te katakata, te kai tahi, me te hīkoi pōturi i raro i ngā rākau.
He pātai mō tēnei rā
- He aha tētahi mahi ka taea te waiho mō āpōpō?
- Ko wai te tangata ka taea e koe te tono āwhina?
- Kei hea tētahi wāhi iti e tau ai tō hā?
- He aha tētahi kupu māhaki ka taea e koe te tuku ki a koe anō?
Kāore e ea ngā raruraru katoa i te hā kotahi. Engari ka taea e te hā kotahi te whakatuwhera i te kūaha. Ka maumahara koe he tangata koe, ehara i te mīhini. He ngākau tōu, he tinana tōu, he whanau, he moemoeā, he whenua kei raro i ō waewae.
Nō reira, i tēnei rā, kimihia tētahi wā iti mō te hā. Kia iti, kia pono. I reira pea ka tīmata anō te kaha.
