[keyle]

Similar experience from me,

my grand father was a resistance veteran back from WWII in Europe. He didn't talk much about it except to express the famine and misery they went through those years. He had it rough, lost his first wife young and just about everything.

He never told me how to be or who to be, or what to think, he just was content to have me around, grateful for everything.

Later in life, he became blind for many years, and just kept trucking along, not the complainer type. Always keeping it light-hearted basically, humouring and never judging, just caring deeply for others but himself, never wanting to be in the way of anyone, even the people paid to help him.

He is to this day my biggest inspiration.