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The Receiving End
All of my life I have given things away - things that I loved, to people that I loved, as a reminder, a memory that stays with you forever. I’ve given food and money to homeless people, I’ve brought strangers into my home to give them a place to sleep. I’ve tried to be the kind of person I would want to meet. When one is always on the giving end, to be on the receiving end is humbling and exalting, all at the same time. This is my story ...
I made a change of locations, and had debt sky-high, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck, a common enough story these days. I drove 30 miles each way to work, on tires that were over two years old. This one particular day, my friend called and asked to borrow my car. He and his wife run a concession stand at an outdoor theater, and he claimed he needed the hauling capacity of my car. Of course was my answer, here are the keys. He returned several hours later, keys in hand, and said he put gas in it. That’s the kind of man he is: even if he took the car with no gas, he’d return it with a full tank. This time though, it wasn’t only gas he put in my car. He and his wife, worried about my safety on my daily commute, had decided to buy new tires for my car. That kind of love - truly unconditional, which has no rhyme or reason – is so powerful. Humbling, because it makes one vulnerable; exalting, because love is such a powerful thing.
I’m a truly blessed human.
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pays to good
its very logical that wat you do to others get back to you. it pays to be good to everybody you meet, because you don’t know tomorrow.
what goes arround comes around. keep up being good. God bless you
grace ibrahim | 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Good Karma
Hi Natalie. I decided to have a very quiet day off from the busy world of my job. I am an Emergency/Trauma RN and I love my job so much. I am the type of nurse who does not sit around nurses stations. I stay at the bedside and talk to my patients and make them feel that I am more than somebody who gives them shots or for pills. I had helped friends and my family with their needs. I even went beyond my mean sometimes just to help them. It feels so good to know that your help had made people sleep better at night, get back to their normal lives, made them smile, and especially made them feel that somebody cares for them. It had happened to me several times that when I was at the “needing side”, they were no where to be found. I don’t even get a call back but rather a text/sms message but no follow ups. I sometimes think that I am helping the wrong people. Somebody out there would have deserved that help then. But I hate to feel that way. What I have done is done and and I know that I was sincere about that help. I still have not seen those friends of mine. They said they had been busy at work.
Life continue to move on for me. I have had good blessings. I just got this job to teach in nursing school.
Thanks
Mel
Melvin Famorca | 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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i think its more than luck or karma
it dose pay to do good but i think it was God making sure you stayed safe your friend was just the mesanger and the real reword for being a good person will be on judgment day keep doin the rite thing
there are not very many great peaple left in this world
heidi lepage | 1 month, 4 weeks ago
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hero
your a hero those all thise people you gaved things to plus the homeless your a very bog hero for them as well people well respect you and honor you in your actions god bless yuo and your family.
santiago cisneros | 2 weeks, 1 day ago
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That’s a wonderful thing your friends did. And it’s important to remember. But in my life I have rarely seen kindness. Most of the time people just take and take especially if you are a kind person. It’s like the seek you out. You give off a vibe that an evil person can spot a mile away. My whole life it has been like this. I have tried not to become hard hearted, but I am broken.
janet | 1 week, 4 days ago
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