Sunday, December 8, 2013

Remembering Kindness in Small Ways

"Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back."
Plato

A mother I know ran into a young man who had been very kind to her son when he was little.  She wasn't sure that the young man would remember her son, but she greatly appreciated his kindness toward him.  Ahead of the young man in line at a sandwich shop, the mother paid for his sandwich without his knowing it.  As she was leaving, she said hi to the young man; he asked about her son by name.  "He still talks about you," the mother told the young man and left.  A few minutes later, the young man came out of the sandwich shop to thank her.  The mother was happy to have extended even a very small kindness to someone who had been so kind to her son.

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