Sometimes it can change a persons life forever and sometimes it can change their day.
I always think, wow there is still compassion in the world today and how lucky those people are to receive such a gift from a complete stranger.
I never thought it would happen to me, until this morning.
I had just dropped my son off at school and decided to make the regular run to Tim Horton's. I pulled into the parking lot and saw the daunting long line of the drive thru. I had my daughter with me and I decided that I didn't really want to wrangle with the car seat straps again and, hey it wasn't like I was in a huge rush or anything so we waited. Inch by inch we got closer and I always notice the congestion in the parking lot from cars trying to pull in the other way, so I decided to let the lady across go in front of me, it clears up the congestion and she probably has somewhere to be, and like I said I wasn't in a hurry.
I pulled up and placed my order of just a coffee. My juice to keep me going in the morning! I pulled up to the window to pay and the lady says to me "and this morning this is absolutely free, the lady in front paid for your order." In that moment in that second I was touched. A complete stranger that I didn't know, have never met and will probably never meet decided to do something so nice for another stranger. She changed my morning.
Some mornings are not as easy as others. Someone is playing with someone else's toy, they don't want to get a shower, Logan doesn't want to wear a jacket even though its only nine degrees outside! But this morning a simple gesture from a stranger made my morning completely different.
I just want to say thank you to the lady in the blue car in front of me. Thank you for showing me that it can happen to anyone. Thank you for buying me my coffee this morning. It was something small but it means a lot to me. Its the little things in life that matter.
In a way it was another secret life lesson.
And now it is my turn to pay it forward.
