Sunday, June 25, 2017

Kindness and a Little Help Up the Stairs

“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.”
~ W. H. Auden

Traveling always presents opportunities for kindness and my latest trip was no exception.  Getting on this particular flight involved going up stairs from the tarmac.  I was carrying my rollerboard and an oversized tote, and helping my mother with her suitcase. Fortunately, the line was moving very slowly, so it enabled me to hoist one bag on a step, then the other bag and then climb the step, and continue with that pattern.  I was less than halfway up when a gentleman behind me said, “If you leave it right there, I will carry it up for you.”  Priceless.

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