The kindness, of everyday people that we come across regularly, and these are the inspirational stories that we need to pay more attention to, translated…
It was ten in the morning that day, I rode my motorcycle out, passed through a roadside radish cakes stand, and I’d stopped, and started picking out the pieces I’d wanted. Suddenly, I’d heard the female owner of the stand spoke to the customer behind me, “Grandma, I didn’t sell as much today, I still have so much left, here, take this one for free.”, I’d lifted my head up to look, saw an old, hunched over, hair all white, elderly woman, with the look of fatigue overcoming her face, extending her thin, malnourished hand, trembling, as she took the food from the woman, and she spoke repeatedly, “Thank you, ma’am, I feel really bad, getting free foods from you so often!”, “It’s no big deal, it’s not worth that much at all.” Then, the elderly placed the foods, carefully, on her shopping cart with the recycled materials, then, dragged her feet, slowly, walked away.
I became confused, and inquired, “It’s only ten in the morning, why did you tell the elderly woman that you can’t sell all your foods?” The female owner of the stand smiled and told me, “Her husband’s been bedridden for years on end, her house relied on her doing recycling bids to get by. Every time she passed me by, I’d lied to her how I couldn’t sell my food items, and that, was when she’d, taken the foods from me.” She’d stopped for a bit, then begun again, “Every time she came out to collect the recycling materials, along the way, everybody would give her the papers they’d collected that they’d not needed. And, most of us in the local markets knew about her home situation, and we’d always given things to her for free.”
the skillet pane where the food is cooked up from, photo from online…
On my way home, I’d bumped into the elderly woman at the intersections, the lights were turning red, and the elderly’s steps were small, was about to get caught in traffic, as I was about to go and give her some assistance in making it across, feared that as the traffic started flowing, she’d gotten caught in traffic, but, I was surprised to find, that the cars going both ways all stopped and waited patiently for her to pass through the street, then, they’d driven off.
Seeing the elderly who was getting farther away from where I stood, I was filled up with warmth.
So, this is the kindness toward stranger from everybody else, and that just showed, that there are these wonderful moments all around us, and we just need to observe more closely to see it, and, get moved by these smaller acts of kindness, and, hopefully, it’ll inspire each and every one of you, to help someone else in need out too.
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