I believe it’s the little things we do that make the world better. Things no one ever knows about.
Say you’re walking home one day and you see a broken bottle on the sidewalk. What do you do? Leave it there, or pick it up and put it in the trash? Let’s say you do the right thing and pick it up.
An hour or so later a young man walks by reading a letter he got telling him he’s been accepted to medical school. The first one in his family to go to university, and now medical school. He trips and falls, and his face hits the sidewalk right where the bottle was. He gets a good bump on the head, a bloody nose, fat lip, chipped tooth and sprained wrist from trying to break his fall. But the glass that wasn’t there doesn’t get in his eyes. And he gets to go to medical school.
Then one day, years later, you are visiting your dear wife in the memory care unit where you reluctantly placed her, after finding her in the street one night looking for her lost puppy.
Her face lights up with recognition for the first time in a long time when she sees you. Just then the Dr. that talked you into letting him try the new treatment he developed (the one with the funny-looking front tooth) walks in, and tells you if your wife continues to improve, you should be able to take her home in a few weeks.
Well, we’ll never know for sure who was really helped when you picked up that broken bottle. But SOMEONE does. And I believe that SOMEONE has already put a checkmark in the “well done” column of your ledger.
