Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Random Act of Kindness




One of the things I like to practice daily is random acts of kindness--put a quarter in the parking meter for someone whose parking meter has expired, let another motorist ahead of me in a merge, hold the door open for someone and allow them to go through first, or just smiling at someone is an act of kindness.

We were recently on vacation in Cabos San Lucas, Mexico with our granddaughter, Jazlyn, when she was the recipient of someone's random act of kindness! We were heading home after a relaxing week, sitting in the Wings restaurant at the airport having a bite to eat. My husband likes to get to the airport VERY early so we don't miss the flight back home. One flight per day out of Cabos is a direct flight to our local airport and we don't want to chance the possibility of multiple connections when we come back from Cabos. Our plane was delayed and we were doing our best to entertain our 4 year old traveling companion, but anyone who travels with small children know that airport delays are when gremlins attack small children's behavior control! We were finishing our lunch when a beautiful woman wandered over to our table with a beautiful straw hat in her hand. She held out the hat to Jazlyn and said that she had bought the hat on the beach while in Cabos but that it was too small for her and asked Jazlyn if she would like to have it since she thought it would be just the right size for someone her size. Jazlyn's eyes got huge and she readily accepted and thanked the kind lady for the hat. I managed to find out that the lady was from New Mexico but then she was gone! I didn't find out her name.

This picture on this blog is the look of a little girl who is the recipient of a random act of kindness. This is the look that someone else might experience when you perform a random act of kindness. Doesn't that make you feel good?

Thank you so much to the kind lady whose name I didn't get at the Cabos Airport on Saturday, February 13, 2010.

1 comment:

  1. Thats great...Putting a smile on a child face is priceless...We all need to learn to be more like that kind lady & put a smile on someones face more often :)

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