After the brief “surprise” homecoming at the airport, my family and I went to eat lunch at this local Vietnamese restaurant (not pho). In the midst of our meal, a few teenagers came into the restaurant and started to set up their equipment and warming up their voices. One girl went around the restaurant and passed out the little donation envelope to each table, and then they began to sing Christmas Carols.
The first thing that went through my mind was nothing. I didn’t even blink twice to think about the donation. When the same girl came back again to collect the envelope, my dad handed her ours and smiled.
Not only did that surprised me, it made me think. It made me think because not only is my family going through a rough patch of financial crisis, but all the negative reasons are correct to back up the idea of NOT to donate money and to save money for ourselves.
It was a random act of kindness. They say children learn from their parents by observing their actions.
It made me think that despite all the horrible and negative reasons of what we should and should not do, we shoud not forget the act of kindess. Although it may be a dent in our pocket now, it will benefit someone else and that’s greater than keeping count of one’s money.
