I remember a few years ago, I happened to have an epiphany that really changed my views on life and why I do kind gestures and acts of kindness towards others.
Here is how it all came about.

The N.H. Mall
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It was December and Christmas was only a few weeks away. People were hurrying to do their shopping and find the best sales they possibly could. Christmas music was in the air everywhere. Money was extremely tight and is even tighter right now, but my lovely wife wanted to travel out to the NH mall in Manchester to do her shopping for some gifts for our children. My duty was to keep the kids busy and away from my wife so she could find them the gifts they wanted.

It was New Hampshire and that being said, it was snowing. Slush was on the ground from the sand and salt that the plow trucks were spreading. People were hurrying to get into the mall and out of the bad weather. Some people were running out of the mall to their cars, as if the snow was burning their skin or was going to melt them, although it was very cold that day.

Despite the frenzy, I was taking my sweet time and walked over to the double doors to the entrance of the mall. We had just dropped my wife off on the other side of the mall and we were going in to get a bite to eat when I noticed a man struggling with a few bags that he was carrying. He looked as though he was about to drop them and as if he was having a very bad day.

I ran over to the doors and opened them up really wide, holding them in place for him with a big smile on my face so that he could walk through them without any problems. After all, it was Christmas time and I was feeling in the spirit of the holiday, “chestnuts roasting on an open fire – Jack Frost biting at your toes,” or was it your nose?
I think that is the way it goes – who knows…?
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