When I was a teacher at Loyola School in Manhattan years ago, one of my students lost her college-age brother in a car accident. I am not a Facebook devotee, but occasionally I take a peek and see her posts, which often refer to her random acts of kindness. There are so many people who would have become jaded after such a terrible loss, but instead this young woman does random acts of kindness like clockwork. She pays for the next customer's coffee, leaves a few dollars hidden behind an item in the Dollar Store, or sends someone a package "just because."
Stuff like this is great to read about, but it packs a punch when it happens to you. I have recently been the recipient of a random act of kindness/paying it forward combo. Someone who appreciates the Inn and what we do is helping me with a project, and I wouldn't be able to do it without him. It feels amazing when people are kind and generous and thoughtful and selfless. So much of what happens around us can seem so automated and techie and fast, like we're all less human than we are meant to be. I am glad to know that today I am wrong about that, and the Inn will be that much nicer for it.
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