#TBT from February 10, 2018.

This Uber trip popped up in the FB memory machine today. I know I am a day late and a dollar short, as usual.

Speaking of dollars…

My passenger, David, demonstrated a powerful tool for purposeful kindness. Besides being a brave soul, working in open space on the top of a 325 foot oil derrick and rollercoasters all over the country, David is also a true Kindness Warrior.

From 2018…

Just dropped off David at the tattoo shop. David paints rollercoasters. Over the next three months he will be painting the oil derrick at Six Flags! It was too cold and windy today so he is getting a tattoo of a rollercoaster wrapped around his arm. Now every time I pass by over the next 3 months I will know who is up there working.

He was sitting in the back right seat. At a traffic stoplight, David slid over quickly to the seat behind me and began rolling down the window. The sudden move was a bit alarming but then I realized he was giving the homeless man standing on the median a few bucks.

I smiled at him and said that was a kind thing to do. David told me he always puts a few bills in his wallet specifically for that purpose and he ALWAYS manages to find someone in need. When I asked him what motivated his kindness, he simply said, “I have walked in his shoes.”

Good luck David. And, thanks for the reminder to be purposefully kind.

Happy Friday, Kindness Warriors.

Be love. Be kind. We are all connected.

Life is better with a soundtrack!

So here is today’s (yesterday’s) #TBT song. Actually, here are two songs.

1st, here is Bruce Hornsby’s The Way It Is from 1986.

“That’s just the way it is.
Some things will never change.
That’s just the way it is.
Ah, but don’t you believe them.”

Things don’t have to stay the same. You can be the change.

This next song, and meeting David reminds me that we don’t “have to” do anything, we “get to.”

We GET TO work. We GET TO make a car payment. We GET TO do the hard things in life. There is always someone who has it harder.

“I got it bad
You don’t know how bad I got it
You got it easy
You don’t know when you’ve got it good
It’s getting harder
Just keeping life and soul together
I’m sick of fighting
Even though I know I should
The cold is biting
Through each and every nerve and fiber
My broken spirit is frozen to the core
I don’t wanna be here no more
Wouldn’t it be good to be in your shoes
Even if it was for just one day?
Wouldn’t it be good if we could wish ourselves away?
Wouldn’t it be good to be on your side?
The grass is always greener over there
Wouldn’t it be good if we could live without a care?”

Wouldn’t It Be Good by Nik Kershaw, 1984.

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