Simply Hope

I still have some hope left for this world.I still have some hope left for this world.

Let’s call her Betty. I’m not clear on what her history is but she walked into my life earlier this year. Well, she’s not a completely BIG part of my life, but she has restored my hope for humanity. If more people were like her, I’m sure the world would be won over by kindness.

From the day I first helped her, she was nice. I mean like, REALLY nice. She was just having some trouble with her phone, the Samsung Omnia. I couldn’t get the problem figured out and it was killing me that I couldn’t. She said she had some errands to run today but she’d be more than happy to swing by some other time. Meanwhile, I looked everywhere to find out the solution to the problem. When she returned, I still had no resolution. I called Mobile Line and asked for some tech support. Turned out, the answer was so simple. No wonder everyone I asked had so much trouble with it! Anyhow, a day or two after she came back. But this time it was just a short visit to drop something off. She gave me a $20 gift card to target. Why? I have NO idea. She said it was for all the trouble and help I went through to get the bug fixed on her phone as well as introducing to her all the features it provided. I thanked her and she went on her way. She was driving this horrid looking car though. Turns out, this horrid looking car was a Mercedes-Benz G-Class. No offense to you out there, I just think it looks like a box on wheels. Haha. Anyhow, I was clueless about how much the car was until I looked it up to find what model number it was (not too big of a fan of the MB). $100,000. That odd looking car is worth a hundred thousand dollars!

Okay, that’s just a car. Couldn’t mean anything, right? She came in a few more times for help with her phone and I paired the Bluetooth from her car to her phone. I met her kids a few times too. All three of them are really sweet. One is actually sitting in the office right now. She’s the youngest. Really quiet girl. Her mother dropped her off to play with the dog.

Woah, like.. nearly the whole day just went by as I just sat back down to finish this post.

Anyway, apparently, she must have money. Her house is super nice. Gated community, her son has a modified 350z, and I’m not sure what her husband drives. Maybe that G class car. But uh, lets get to the point, shall we?

She donated $12,000 to another customer at our store. In cash. The two haven’t met, she wishes for her identity to be unknown by the man. Let’s call him Steve.

Steve has lost his job, lost all his money, his car, and was recently diagnosed with cancer. He has come to the store on countless occasions to ask us for help and we have gone out of our way to do so with certain requests. For instance, my post about the curse of a kind heart? He has a lot to do with it. Just this week, I probably used a whole tank being his taxi driver. He feels bad, I’m pretty annoyed, but I just smile and say it’s no problem at all. I didn’t volunteer for the job, nor is it one I can afford. He also spilled my Jamba Juice Betty bought for us earlier today on my backpack, shoes, and desk. Ah well…

Steve was very fortunate to have his story told by chance to Betty who was kind enough to donate that generous sum of money to buy a car. Which, he did with the help of my father and I. I found the car, mum dealed the price down, I drove him and my dad to the dealership, and my dad dealed down the price and got the paperwork summed up for Steve and drove Steve’s car back to our home where Steve proceeded to drive home. Steve apparently had surgery a few weeks ago and is having a hard time walking.

So, I guess I’m just amazed that people out there are willing to help one another. Complete strangers that have never met. Amazing, isn’t it? And so comforting.

Well, time to close up shop. I just hope that when I’m in as much need as Steve, someone else out there will step up and help me, like Betty did. But, just not to that great of an extent. (:

Kindness is simply one of the many forms of love in action. That’s what I think anyway.

Goodnight, bittersweet world.