Today I had a conversation that drew me back to an experience that occurred in 2019. I would like to share this experience…extending a story of kindness and humanity.
Life has an interesting way of bringing you what you need. A lady trying to reach an office in El Paso was somehow routed to my office in Dallas. I’m unsure if she had a question related to my line of work. If she did, we never got to it. Maybe a minute into the conversation, she tells me her youngest son was killed in the El Paso Walmart shooting. That phone call was so emotionally intense. At that moment, my personal issues didn’t matter to me. I felt a strong sense of obligation to be there for this stranger in whatever capacity she needed me to be. I don’t know where the words came from, but all the right words came. After over an hour, she was finally able to pull herself together. She thanked me. She said her husband had passed away, and she was very lonely with no one to vent to.
I share that to say this, don’t wait until it is too late to try and make amends for situations you have the opportunity to fix today. Break the bad habit of selfishness and being stuck in your own world, dwelling on your own problems. We all have problems. But sometimes your healing can come by helping someone else navigate through their pain — a lot of the words that came to me to speak to her, I realized, weren’t only for her; they were for myself. Be good to people and treat them how you want to be treated. I know that sounds cliché, but it’s the truth. Why go out of your way to do the wrong thing when you can effortlessly do the right thing? It costs you absolutely nothing to be good to someone. It will cost you absolutely everything when you mistreat a person.
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