Many of you have known me for quite sometime, so many of you know that I'm a Criminal Justice Major and currentlyl a Criminology Master Student. I got to class three times a week to hear about criminals, crimes, theories, juvenile delinquents, media and their affect on crime, etc. But it doesn't take me being a criminal justice student to really know how the world is today. How violent our world has become, how selfish, greedy, disrepectful. It becomes so easy to take a nasty and negative attitude with the criminals and think that our world does not have one simple good soul left in it. And I think I might have that attitude a lil too often... It is so hard to see the good when everywhere you turn seems bad. For example, my cousin, I happened to notice his status just the other day...someone has felt the need to take his XBOX 360...now I know this isn't really something he needs to survive...but it was a gift given to him, and now someone else feels the need to have it for whatever reason. My heart breaks for him, I know its not a necessity to his life but it was his. Another example, I had borrowed a bike from a friend, kept it on my patio the whole time I had it, the day she called me to come get it, it was there, we arranged a pick up time and she shows up, only to find the bike is GONE...Really!? Why!? It's just so saddening and frustrating when that stuff happens that it does eventually make it difficult to look at the good in the world....Which brings me to today's blog title....
I know I'm not the best at picking great music, but back in the day there was a country group called South Sixty Five, I know I wasn't their only fan because I did go to a concert of theirs and I was not the only person at the concert...so ya... anyways, as corney as they may have been and as corney as their songs may have been, there was always one song of theirs I LOVED to listen to... Yep you guessed it, it was titled, A Random Act of Senseless Kindness...I'm gonna post the lyrics...and then finish my story for why I was inspired to write this blog today...
I picked up the morning paper
The headlines were no surprise
A random act of senseless violence
Was committed again last night
It seems the whole world has gone crazy
And something needs to be done
So starting today, I'm gonna find a way
I'm gonna repay someone
With a random act of senseless kindness
Unexpected hand to help remind us
A little bit of love is the cure for hate
It's easy to give up but it's never too late
A single step in the right direction
Person to person making a connection
We can change the world that's become so violent
With a random act of senseless kindness
How I long to live the simple life
When neighbors were still friends
And the sidewalks leading downtown
Were safe to walk back then
The classrooms and the school yards
Were havens for our kids
Well, it's a long way back but we can get on track
Today's a good day to begin
With a random act of senseless kindness
Unexpected hand to help remind us
A little bit of love is the cure for hate
It's easy to give up but it's never too late
A single step in the right direction
Person to person making a connection
We can change the world that's become so violent
With a random act of senseless kindness
With a random act of senseless kindness
Unexpected hand to help remind us
A little bit of love is the cure for hate
It's easy to give up but it's never too late
A single step in the right direction
Person to person making a connection
We can change the world that's become so violent
With a random act of senseless kindness
A randon act of senseless kindness
Also as you all know I can bable on for hours but here is the most IMPORTANT part of my blog today. I get up this morning, late as usual but in no hurry to get ready. :) Finally when I'm ready to head to work, I decide I'm gonna go get some coffee at QT. I simply take my wallet in forgetting I spent all my cash last night, and forgetting I didn't put my debit card back in it. I get my coffee and go up to the register to pay. 1.20 something is my total, open the wallet, no cash, and not enough change to scrounge up to pay, so I go for my debit card, not there either, now I'm getting all paniced because I still don't remember what I've done with all my cash or my debit card. So I decide to be that lady, I pull out the checkbook. The clerk acts all grumpy because I'm gonna write a check for a dollar something, but at this point its take the check or take the coffee back. :) ...So I start to write the check, and then this guy comes over and says excuse me to the clerk, I automatically assume he's trying to rush me and the clerk so he can just get out of there like he's in a big hurry or something. But when I actually pay attention to what he's saying, I hear something completely unbelieveable! He was telling the clerk to add his drink to my total and they he'd just pay for both of them. I now am completely embarrassed for taking the negative attitude, and start thanking him.
The coffee was a dollar, and I reacted almost as though this guy had just won the lottery and offered me half. All I'm trying to say is that this guy was simply doing a random act of senseless kindness and it completely brightened my day. The world has become so selfish and greedy that you would think stuff like that doesn't happen anymore. But it does, maybe in very small quantities but it does. And that simply brightens my day...
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