Just One More Bottle

I have never been the type to blog every day. It’s too much work, and I am an awful writer. So this is actually for yesterday, and then I will make a new one for today. I don’t know why I am acting like I am answering to a huge following. I don’t think one person besides me would be reading this, but I think it’s easier to write a blog if you pretend you have an audience. So here is my post for the masses. I am scared of Downtown… anywhere. If it’s Downtown, I don’t like it. I grew up in a town where the population is between 8,000 – 9,500ish. A very small place. So just the traffic patterns alone scare the hell out of me. But alas, I had to go downtown yesterday. I planned on going to a park/area where homeless are known to frequent and hand out some goodie bags. Sadly my mission downtown was not completed, and I did not have time to hand out all of the bags. I did, however, get to give out one bag. The man was so kind and seemed truly grateful. My concern was, “I hope these supplies are things he could use”. I never know if a person is a scam artist, or really someone in need. I don’t think it’s my place to judge. I would obviously rather being giving it to a person truly in need. With how grateful this man was, I believe he needed the items. I know a lot of people get mad or frustrated at “panhandlers” (where does that phrase even come from?), but I think it’s a lot harder than people assume it is. I mean sure, you are asking for people’s “hard” earned money, but it’s not easy. To be honest, someone out in the street asking for money, is working a lot harder than I do at my job. I am lucky to have a job that requires a certain skill set, but it’s not a hard job at all. All this to say, I don’t mind handing off a few dollars to help someone I truly believe is in need. My theory is if they are going to buy drugs or a drink, so be it. It’s money they didn’t have to steal. As a person who has had money stolen from them for drugs, I know how bad that sucks. Also, addicts are people too. We are all one bad decision away from being in a really bad spot. The good news is I still have more bags to hand out, and more meal cards. The bad news is, I probably have to do downtown again. L I am learning so much about myself doing this 30 acts. I really enjoy helping people. If it wasn’t so hard, I think I would go back to school to be a social worker. I would be amazing at it, but I HATE school and the lie that is higher education. But that’s a horse of another color.

Not to brag on myself, but overall I am a kind person. I actually try to be. I can be moody and downright mean to people sometimes, because I have no control over my emotions. I am a train wreck. But 90% of the time I go out of my way to be a kind person. Maybe it because when I do flip out and be a jerk to someone, they will remember all the kind things I have done and let my insane actions balance out. The point I am making is it’s pretty hard to do random acts of kindness (ROAK, if you remember) that wouldn’t be something I did on a daily basis anyway. I have been looking for ideas for what to do, and a lot of suggestions are things like, give a sincere compliment, smile at everyone you see, tell someone how awesome they are. Which, don’t get me wrong, are all great suggestions. They are just things that I would do anyway. So I have tried to challenge myself to do things I wouldn’t normally do. I believe I said this yesterday. I am just thinking this may be harder than I thought. I planned on bringing in donuts for the team today. Which I did. Alright easy enough, ROAK day 2 complete! Then on my way back to work after my lunch break, I passed my friend M waiting for the bus. Without even thinking, I turned around and asked her if she wanted a ride home. She only lives about 10 or so minutes away from my office, so I figured I can be late from lunch and make up the time at the end of the day. NBD! Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with riding the bus, but it was an unusually warm day and she had a bunch of stuff with her. So I drop her off and head back to work. Not realizing that I just did a ROAK. I also gave a compliment in an email to a co-worker, because she has a lot on her plate and is doing great work. So do I count these things? My plan initially was to do one act a day for 30 days. Then I switched. I thought to myself well, what if I just did 30 acts in 30 days because there is one day that will take up 6 of my acts at once. But if that’s the case and I do 30 in 30 days I feel like I will be done in a week. So for now I think I am going to plan on doing one a day, until May 22nd. If I go over 30, GREAT!!! But if all else fails maybe having a bank of ROAK isn’t such a bad thing. You know when I first started this idea I was going to do 30 in one day! I don’t, it will all work out in the end. As long as I can make someone smile, I will be happy.

So my adventure begins... I will keep you up-to-date on all of my actions. I am not usually one to commit to something. 30 days seems like a long time, but I have to fight through the urge to quit because I lose interest in it. A huge character flaw I have. I hope anyone who maybe reads this has a great day, and takes the opportunity to do a RAOK. A ton of small actions, make a big change. 

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