Ms. Robin, my darling roommate's older sister, has made a great challenge for herself for the month of April; to do one good deed each day. This is such a wonderful idea and such a great way to think outside of yourself. Wouldn't it be great if there were more Robins in this world to help create a little more goodness in this life?
Anyways, I was looking through my pictures from Mexico and came across these and thought that this nice deed from complete strangers deserved some blogging recognition. I also thought I could help provide some inspiration and ideas from my own life that have sure made my day!
My family and I were on a quest to go Tequila tasting (hey, it's Mexico!) and thought we would use Mexico's public transportation to get there. Well, of course being the lame tourists we are, we took one bus that only ended up taking us about half way to our desired location. So my parents went into a restaurant asking the owners for some "guidance". My parents came out and said to just start walking up the road. About 5 minutes into our walk, a black truck pulled off to the side of the road and offered us a ride. They were people who had been eating at that restaurant and heard my parent's clear disorientation. So we all pilled on in the back of the truck and watched the road disappear behind us. It turned out we would of had about a mile and a half walk up a curvy and ascending road with no sidewalks (and Lord knows my family sure aren't the most athletic!). The turned out to be some college guys who were visiting from Texas and must have recognized us as lost souls. It was about a 10 minute drive that probably would have taken us about an hour or so to walk. My parents ended up giving them some money even though they didn't ask for it to thank them for their generosity of sharing their wheels with us. Who knows if they had hoped to get a reward out of it or if they were just trying to lend a hand, all I know is that it made me feel great and have some hope for this often cold world.
Thanks to those Texans and to all the people out there like Robin! You guys keep the world spinning.
3 comments:
haha that is soo cool that you got to go there and expierence such kindness from people that is so limited in todays world :)
u should have taken me grrr lol jk
luv ya
what an awesome story! thanks, becca, for the shout out. i really appreciate it, sometimes i feel embarrassed about this one deed a day thing!
another thing - such a BEAUTIFUL picture of you! you look happy, and calm. makes me want to go to mexico. i think we share a love of latino culture... and men? haha.
Well written article.
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