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I feel like I am always either at school, sports practice or a game, so I have to find different ways to do little acts of kindness. My good friend and co-worker has a mom dealing with cancer who is living with her during treatment. I decided to send this mom - whom I've never met - a card thanking her for raising such a wonderful person. I told how her daughter was such being a good listener, someone who I can share my troubles with, and someone who makes me laugh.
I was a little uneasy about it afterwards and wondered if my friend would think it strange.
Tonight while sitting at basketball practice I received a text from my friend. She wanted to tell me that the card I sent her mom was one of the most beautiful things she had ever read and how lucky she was to have me in her life!
I'm glad I went with my gut feeling and sent the card. What was the worst that could happen? Mom and daughter could have a good laugh at my craziness, but so what? They could use some laughter right now. They could have talked about how strange I was, but even then they'd be talking about the card I sent.
I got lucky and they enjoyed sharing the kind words.
I sent it because I thought how neat it would be one day to have someone send me a card telling me how happy they were to have one of my children in their lives and what a great job I had done raising my child!
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- Posted by kidzfirst
- May 27, 2013
- Comments (14)
Readers Comments
jsmc10 wrote: I'm so glad you did go with your gut feeling aswell :) this warmed my heart, just reading this. I hope this helps them. You are an amazing, caring person kidzfirst :)
Mish wrote: Yes, sometimes we might be called "weird" for some of the kindness acts we do, but if it comes from the heart we must never hesitate to act. Glad you did what you did! And, I am sure everyone you spend time round knows just how special a soul you are... we all do!
Dobby wrote: Glad you sent the card. Too often we negatively assume how someone will take what we do, only to find out how wrong we were. Maybe it's a U.S. thing, being suspicious of intentions.
I also think we underestimate the joy good kinds of weirdness bring to people. After all, when you really think about it, God is weird. How else do you explain the platypus? Or the saints? (trust me, they had oodles of good weirdness!) :-)
I also think we underestimate the joy good kinds of weirdness bring to people. After all, when you really think about it, God is weird. How else do you explain the platypus? Or the saints? (trust me, they had oodles of good weirdness!) :-)
denisemj wrote: I'm so Glad that you sent the card!
How Proud this Mother must feel right now with all that is going on. You brought Light and remindered her how Special her daughter is.
Thanks for Caring and sharing :)
How Proud this Mother must feel right now with all that is going on. You brought Light and remindered her how Special her daughter is.
Thanks for Caring and sharing :)
Bluxess wrote: You went by your heart ... You shared what you felt true about your friend ... You sent it to a mother who was unwell ... All I see are gifts ... for yourself (for listening), for your friend and her mother ... You did the best act kidzfirst ...
AURELIA wrote: You were able to take away some of the stress that mom is going through. You gave her something she can read over and over and Smile each time. I am glad you followed your Heart. :0) ~Aurelia
LinnieLou wrote: You are so wonderful, you have blessed me with your kind words. You said, "what's the worst that can happen". You opened my eyes, to see what i couldn't before. I needed to read this, today. I have agonized over something. I want any more, after reading this. So what if someone thinks i am crazy, it doesn't matter to me now.
Thank you for blessing your friend and her mother. And for your blessing me with those words. May god bless you and may he, double it up.
Thank you for blessing your friend and her mother. And for your blessing me with those words. May god bless you and may he, double it up.
caitlinjo wrote: We had a few days after school was out where teachers had to get together & work on deconstructing standards for the common core. This may not seem much like the article, but the actions were inspired by a similar post. After spending a great deal of time working together to create the work we were being asked to do, we got copies of it to look over. My school's principal wanted to see the work so i showed her what we had done. She was impressed by it; so after lunch i told the group her reaction. They responded that it was nice to hear that response as we weren't usually given that kind of encouragement. Later, i had the opportunity to tell another friend how much she was helping the students at her school with scholarships. She asked how i knew what she was doing. I responded that i had seen many kids in the paper or heard about scholarships they had received & knew she was in charge of much of that at her school. If we have something good to share about someone, it seems the first person who should be told is the person themselves. We may assume they know, but they might not. At best, we make someone's day!
crazydane wrote: What a wonderful idea and so caring of you to do. Warmed my heart today to read this. You have blessed a lot of people too by sharing it (((( ))))
cabbage wrote: What a great idea! Thank you so much for sharing :-)
