Eden Richman Week 3 - My Last Goodbye

     This week I realized something that I feel very terrible about. As some of you know, I have been teaching a four-year-old girl Hebrew on zoom over the summer on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She always seemed to like our zooms and would often cry when we had to end them. The Thursday before school started was one of those days. Chaya - the little girl, was crying and telling me not to leave the zoom. She wanted to keep on playing games with me, which is very sweet, but not when I needed to end the zoom. I reassured her that we would meet again on Tuesday like I do every other time.  She finally agreed (with a little persuasion from her mom) and I ended the zoom. 

    Nothing seems wrong with that, right? Wrong. I told her I would see her again on Tuesday, but the truth is that I wouldn't. We met at 10 am and that was in the middle of the school day. I told her mom that school was starting and that I couldn't meet at 10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays anymore, I also wanted to know if there was a different time we could meet so I could keep on helping her daughter. She thanked me for my time and didn't respond to my offer about finding a different time. 

                                           

    Days past, and I got homework and had to study for tests and the SAT. I completely forgot about Chaya. Every so often a Tuesday or a Thursday went by where I would think about why the mother never took me up on my offer to switch times. But this week, Chaya's mom put a video on WhatsApp of Chaya saying "shana tova umetuka" It was an adorable video, then I started to think about our zoom meetings, and realized what I had said at our last meeting. I told her that I would see her on Tuesday, but that never happened. 

    I know this probably sounds like a very trivial thing, but I genuinely feel terrible for what I said and hope to be able to talk to her soon, maybe even in person. Have you ever said something by accident that you regretted?