Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Kindness Overhead

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
― Audrey Hepburn

On a business recent trip, I overhead or observed various instances of kindness:

§  In line at the security checkpoint, two women were talking.  One shared with the other that her daughter had had a kidney transplant nearly a year ago.  When the other woman asked how the daughter was doing, the first woman said that she was doing very well and then told her that the donor had been the daughter-in-law.

§  As passengers were boarding one of my flights, the flight attendant told a woman boarding the plane that she looked familiar.  The woman said that she was a flight attendant, too.  When the working flight attendant asked her if she wanted something to drink, the passenger flight attendant said that she would wait until they began the regular service.

§  Walking through the airport terminal, I saw one of the airport employees run ahead to hold a door for an employee who was pushing a wheel chair.

And when I finally stepped off the plane feeling very happy to be back home, the television monitors were flashing a story about kindness.

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