Several years ago, I saw a show on Oprah (yes, I did watch her from time to time) where she spoke about random acts of kindness. What does that mean? Just simply doing something for someone else for no particular reason. I loved the idea.
I was on the AAMT (now AHDI) board at the time and we met three times a year in Modesto. That meant toll bridges in and out of San Francisco. I began to always pay for the person behind me. It didn't matter what bridge, who was behind me, and they, of course, never knew who I was or why I would have done that. It always gave me a great feeling. There really aren't toll bridges in North Carolina so there's not much opportunity for that. I did find myself repeating the act when in Colorado a few months ago on the toll road out of the Denver airport. You know the thing about random acts of kindness is that they always make you feel so darned good.
Tonight I found myself in Wal-Mart. Now, that is never my favorite place to be, especially when it comes check out time. The lines are always long, the people in front of me always have a TON of stuff in their basket, and I am almost always tired. And so it was tonight. As I stood there, a bottle fell out of my cart. The man behind me picked it up for me, and I noticed he only had two things in his hand. And so I asked if he would like to just go ahead of me. He was so pleased and it was just a simple thing that made me feel good as well. And you know, all of a sudden standing in line in Wal-Mart wasn't quite as bad as usual.
Sometimes I think the practice of random acts of kindness is a lost art these days. Where could you do that in your life? I challenge you to just give it a try and see how one simple random act of kindness changes your outlook on your day!
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My daughter & were once stuck in one of those terrible Christmas-shopping traffic jams. You know, about 7:00 in the evening on the highway near the mall sometime in December. We were just sitting at a standstill so we decided to try something different. Everytime we saw a car trying to get into traffic from a parking lot exit, we let them in. Every single one of them. Even if we'd sat for minutes waiting to move, we'd wait the few seconds it took for them to get in ahead of us.
After of couple of minutes we felt better! It wasn't long after that before the jam just broke up in front of us. Since then we've done it many times. Allowing people to get in ahead of us always seems to get us out of the traffic jam sooner.
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