An Example of The Power of Kindness

[Snader]

I want to share an experience I had last week to show people how small simple acts of kindness can have so strong inner impact.

On Tuesday we had a surprising snow storm here in the city I live in and plow trucks went crazy blocking parked cars on the road sides with the snow. In the evening when I came home from work, as I turned to my well maintained residence car park, I saw a lady shoveling snow away from the sides of her parked car on the side of the road. I had quite a rough day at work so I first decided to ignore her, but she was there without any hat or gloves and it was freezing cold so I couldn't help but go offering her help. Right when I got there and took the shovel I noticed how much of show there was. There was too much to move with just a shovel so I told her that she needs to let it be and hope that city's maintenance will do something about it in the days to come. So she agreed and we both left home. Only the fact that I tried to help her made me feel so much better.

When I got inside I still felt bad for her, so I thought -- because she was a foreigner --  she probably don't know how to appeal to the city about the situation, so I went back out, I took a picture of the car, came back in and made the appeal. That made me feel even better, even though I was sure that the appeal is most likely useless, as the city doesn't usually respond to that kind of single complains especially when the snow storm was so surprising and there were lots of people whining and lots of work to do. Well, about 4 hours later I heard a big vehicle outside, I looked out the window and YES, a huge tractor with a huge scoop came just for that one particular car. Man, that felt good.

Next day I had really good vibes thanks to that and when I came home I saw that she had moved the car. That AGAIN made me feel good. Two days forward when I had pretty much forgotten the whole thing, I saw the lady walking on the street on my way to a store and she told me how amazed she was that the snow was moved from around her car so quickly and she thanked me once again for trying to help her with the shovel anyway. I just smiled and told her how lucky she was  

Those events made my week soo good and it was all just because of a small single act that was done out of pure kindness!

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@Snader Beautiful. This is a very sweet story.