I’ve been wondering what to write about for a while now, and this isn’t a fancy post, but I feel the need to add some kindness today.
Saturday, driving home from spending the day at the university doing the department open day talks, there was a young mum carrying two small children (one on each hip) who was walking by the side of the road, alongside a farmer’s field. There was no pavement or sidewalk and the children were wiggly. I initially drove by and thought, oh that’s tough. I remember carrying two smalls… I turned around and drove back to her, rolled down the window, and asked if she needed help and if she had far to go. (the two small children were both walking now and that wasn’t a good thing on a busy back road.) She said they were just going to the next drive at the end of the field, but was so pleased that I had asked/offered to help her.
It took seconds of my time and nearly no effort.
There is still room for kindness and trust in people in our world.
Yesterday, walking past a coffee place there was a bloke in a wheelchair who dropped his paper and it managed to spread itself through the entire front of the cafe, he was really trying to pick them all up, he couldn’t possibly reach them all but no one even turned… After worrying if i’d offend him I just ran in with my ten bags of shopping and my 5 year old nephew and just scooped them all up, very happily, while he was saying ‘you must be a mad woman’, haha, it wasn’t really kind but he was so so grateful, he couldn’t believe it, offered me a coffee… No more than two minutes of my time i’d give over and over again! Two minutes out of all the hours we have in a day really can sometimes give something special to someone in need. The spontaneous kindenss of strangers can do so much more than we realise… Nice one Laura 🙂