Friday, August 3, 2018

The Kindness of an Offered Seat

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
~ Princess Diana

A mom friend of mine was traveling with her two children but without her husband.  The two children were seated together with a young woman next to them.  One of the children was visibly unhappy to be sitting without her mother.  The young woman noticed and offered her seat to my mom friend, so that the mom could sit with her children.  It may have been a minor inconvenience to the young woman, but for my friend and her daughter, the generous gesture went a long way toward calming frayed nerves.