Well, I have not had the best week! Tuesday, sometime in the middle of the night I came down with the flu...and let me tell you, it was intense. I haven't gotten that sick in over a year or two. So I didn't get to do too many random acts of kindness. Not to mention, Wednesday night my boyfriend came down with the flu, the same exact kind. Needless to say, our house is germ infected!
When Thursday came around, as much as I wanted to go to my grandpa's I felt like I shouldn't. With as sick as he is if he caught any strand of the flu what so ever, he'd probably be back in the hospital again. I don't want that on me, plus I would feel so bad! So anyways, I called him up and asked if he thought it was okay if I came over, despite of all of this I still wanted to stick to my pact (spending time with him). But he said what I thought he would say, it's probably not a good idea. Today I'm finally feeling 100% better. My sister and I went over to his house today and celebrated her birthday. I bought all the pizzas, and made the cake, which was oh so good. We had so much fun playing this simple game, Shut-box..I believe it's called.
Other than that, I manged to do little acts here and there today:
Helped an older lady carry her groceries to her car. Her reaction was priceless when I asked she had this
deer in the headlights look, "umm, whatt is going on?!" she was probably thinking. haha. but she smiled very big. "You didn't have to do that" she said. I insisted it was okay...she said thank you about 4 times. I told her she was welcome and to have a great day.
It was simple, just seen the opportunity to do a nice thing.
Today was Marsha's benefit. I helpedwith the silent action and call off the raffle tickets. It was such a good turn out! There was food, live music, and so many kids! It was a lot of fun though. I'm excited to see how much they made.
That's so nice about helping that lady with her groceries! I always want to do stuff like that but I'm afraid of how people will react. One time, I saw this old man on crutches crossing the street, and it was clear he was having a rough time of it. I approached him and asked if he wanted any help. He recoiled from me as if I were disgusting and yelled, "NO!" like I should have known better than to ever talk to him. I'm not going to lie, it hurt my feelings pretty badly at the time, but maybe he was just embarrassed about the situation he was in, and felt like he would further lose his dignity if I helped him. I'm glad that you haven't had any experiences like that so far in your quest.
ReplyDeleteI think it's awesome your doing these random acts of kindness. You don't really realize how much a little act is appreciated until you do it. Like the old lady thanking you so many times. To you it was no big deal, but I bet it helped her a lot.
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