Trading Tokens and Enjoying a Longer Wait

--by livelife01, posted Nov 4, 2011

I was in Cambridge a couple of months ago and wanted to mail some inspiring books to this wonderful person I have known for a long time. I have had the privilege of volunteering with her and learning from her infectious enthusiasm. So the books were a gift to her to read and pass along in a pay-it-forward mode.

The queue in the post office was rather long, and I had picked a token for my turn, number 29, and was sitting in a vacant seat. I saw this elderly lady walk in sometime later and pick a token, which was number 55. I knew that she would have a wait of at least an hour, while my token was due to be called in another 5-10 minutes. So I walked to where she was sitting and asked her if she would like to exchange tokens with me as she would then have a shorter wait. She gave me the most beautiful smile, exchanged her token with mine and thanked me in the softest voice I have heard.

The additional one hour wait I had was definitely worth it !!!!

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Posted by livelife01
Nov 4, 2011
Comments (11)

Readers Comments

Bluxess wrote: What a lovely soul you must be ... I feel grateful to you too ... Thank you :-) Have an immensely blessed day livelife :-) Bluxess.

unknown wrote: being myself an elderly (65) person who finds standing and waiting horribly painful, your action truly touched my soul. What an extraordinary kindness you gave that woman, and you just shined up your halo a bit in the process.

gelai wrote: You did a great job!!;-) regards gelai

trueblue wrote: How truly beautiful.. that's so excellent!
I love you kindness (:-)

moral12 wrote: You are obviously an angel in disguise!

Bluebell wrote: Thank you for your loving kindness. When I help an elderly person, I always think about my mother and how I would like others to help her if I was not around. Love and Light and Endless Blessings, Bluebell

textyourdreams wrote: I work and volunteer my time with elderly people. It takes some thought sometimes to do the right thing. I am sure you had other things to do, but you chose the road less traveled at times and the blessings you will receive will come through all kinds of different things. You gave a feather of an angel to God's special people our wish and aged people. Thanks for warming all of our hearts.

MakeSomeoneSmile wrote: That is awesome! What a very kind thing to do. I would imagine your face was sore after that hour of smiling! :)

RMB333 wrote: WODERFUL! YOU have set a good example for our youngsters! Thank you for sharing with HO'livelife01',bless you!

LadyBird wrote: Such a kind act! It's not easy to deliberately choose to wait for one more hour! But i'm sure it was a nice hour - thinking about the grateful lady :)

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