Monday, September 29, 2014

The Kindness of Showing Compassion

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
― Albert Schweitzer

You may have already heard about the wife and husband in Iowa who left a $100 tip on a $66 restaurant bill -- even though the service was awful.  It seems the restaurant was short-handed and the waiter was on his own trying to attend to 12 tables.  Celebrating a wedding anniversary, the couple left the waiter the big tip to let him know that they knew the bad service was not his fault.  The wife posted the receipt (without showing the name of the restaurant) on her Facebook page to remind people "to think of the entire situation before you judge."  The post has gone viral and garnered more than one million "likes."

"I hope people just show more compassion for everybody," the wife said.  "If you can give little or give big, I think everybody's world would be a little kinder, gentler and nicer."

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