I firmly believe that you reap what you sow, you get what you give and life has a funny way of working out just when you wonder if you have planted a good crop. Today, while at Dollar General, an older man was confused by the labeling of the gallon milk containers. You see, every brand has a different color code, this means who knows what you are getting unless you understand the labeling; this man wanted 1% or 2% milk, not skim, not whole milk. The container the man had grabbed was labeled as “fat free milk”, which means he grabbed skim milk and he would have “gotten in trouble when he got home, had he purchase the wrong milk”, too funny! Me being who I am, said, wait a minute, let me go look because I don’t buy milk here, but I can tell you that particular one you grabbed is definitely skim milk. I walked from the check out lane to the milk cooler to find that the blue label was 1%, I hollered back to the check out – “1% you said? That’s what you want?” and the guy replied, “yes”. He met me half way between the coolers and the checkout, I handed him the 1% and returned the no fat milk to the cooler. I then made a comment, “I don’t work here, but I just like helping others, I guess.” The guy laughed and thanked me profusely for my assistance, in this moment I felt warm hearted, compassionate and love for our human kind.
You see, I did not help this man for anything in return, I was simply being who I am from deep within; a kind, compassionate person who helps others before her own self. I never feel bitter for not having others help me in the way that I reached out to them, because I just don’t expect such return of kindness. That doesn’t mean I expect a return of meanness, it simply means, I believe you get what you give and reap what you sow. Today, my one act of going up and beyond for a random human being, made his day, and in return it made my day! I will go to work smiling because I know that I helped another person today. This is what I live for, this is what I breath for, I always say I am overly courteous and have a huge level of empathy. No one has yet to really figure out where I got these traits from; both in a personal level and mother level, but I don’t care where they came from; I just know I love being around other people and making their day brighter.
I started to lose who I am, my daughter has noticed a change in my demeanor, I have not been as happy go lucky and my environment is clearly not making my heart full of warmth. I started to feel bitter, angry and disappointed about where the relationship I am in led me. Then one day, like I wrote the other day, I woke up. I woke up and I am not going back to sleep again, I will continue to focus on mind over matter; remembering that things can’t change in one day, but that with hope, positive attitude and love, things will get to whereever they are meant to be. For now, I will continue to do random acts of kindness to go up and beyond, becaus today was a gigantic example of why I work in the field I work in – to assist others in any way I can, to uplift others, to make a grumpy face turn bright; that is and has always been my mission in life. I will not do that to the point of depleting/exhausting who I am, I will do it to the point of creating a world of utter happiness, kindness and compassion for human beings.
I challenge you to spread some happiness today. Cheers!
