"I feel disillusioned as I see some people going about doing what they want (selfishly, may I say) not caring about anyone and people seemed to value them more. It makes me wonder... why should I bother?
I know I shouldn't think this way. I also wish that ONE day I will get some good back from others. But at this point, I'm just not hopeful. " quote
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Hikaru.. REST when you need to.
And, set your default mode that
it's Always Good to Do Good.
Thank you so much for your honest response!
Yeah.. our communications got *poofed*-- oh no. But I'm glad you read it. *smile* Glad you enjoyed the 'bus stories'. Yes, I've got more of those too.
bus stories....
I was on a circulator-bus a few months ago. The bus driver was sooo frickin' cold and "detached."
This guy came up in a wheelchair. The driver refused to acknowledge him, but "waited" .. and observed. I suspect that he was waiting for the guy to "just give up trying" to get on his bus-- wasn't going to budge an inch.
When I suddenly "realized" what was happening, and how long it was taking for the man to negotiate the curb, I immediately got out of my seat to go 'assist' this man.
(The gap between the threshold of the bus-door ramp and the curb it wasn't aligning with, was inches too far. The man needed help managing his wheels over the slightly too-wide gap without getting stuck in it.)
So. Maybe the driver was '~shamed?' as some others on the bus were also noticing what was happening with the wheelchair guy-- I figure that maybe this driver was afraid he'd get "reported" for his calloused behavior?
The driver capitulated. Simple-help with the wheels to bridge the gap needed to board that bus.
As I went back to my seat, an elderly man (wearing a War Veteran's cap) tapped me on the shoulder, and said that I had a heart of gold, like HIS-- and he expressed that 'we' are now dinosaurs in society. There are fewer people who engage-themselves to 'help others in need' out of the kindness of their souls. Regular people just don't want to extend help to other people anymore. .. Random Acts of Kindness?
{That's one of the reasons why I Value the news-media here in town. They do vignettes of role-modeling.. Of "People Helping People." I love what a TV personality for Children had said while he was alive-- "Always look for the Helpers." -- Mister Rogers}
This incident left me feeling a bit despondent for a while, thinking about that. Thinking about how "generally" true that 'appears' to be.
What I figure is that each person I have helped over my lifetime, were the recipients of moments of Good Fortune. It will have enhanced their life in some way, and had a ripple-effect. I had '?randomly' been put there (by God) in just the right moment for them to Receive-- a Good word, or a Kind action.
* Those 2 "detached and entertained" teens by the deep pond filming the man that couldn't swim-- COULD have saved a life that day.
* Those 4 teens that "instinctually responded" to the clue of 'smoke' on someone's roof, DID save a person's life.
"Keep" doing Good, Hikaru.
It is good for your Soul, AND, you might be doing this 'for' the Higher Power (God) that watches over all.
You are creating Good Karma--
In my own faith-system, scriptures say that GOD will Reward acts of Kindness.
God has the ability to give inner-messages that 'move' another person's Heart to Help.
Hikaru, you never know if another human 'saw' what you did, and are working in the background to help YOU, too.
"Birthday" Message--
I was given a very prophetic 60th Birthday message in the year 2015.
I had gone to celebrate this milestone-birthday by myself. I had no friends who celebrated me, nor even a card or acknowledgement with flat-mate/apartment roommate, with whom I've had a decade-long {at that time} living situation. (He doesn't believe in celebrating ANY holiday).
Birthdays sometimes can bring on blues some years?
For my own 60th in May 2015,
I went to a local pancake house. Told the waitress it was my birthday, so I could make it 'more fun' for me, as she found out I had no one celebrating my extra-special day.
A woman who had been seated nearby had finished her food, and had left the restaurant.
ON the way TO her car.. She had a 'nudge' to come BACK into the store, PAID for my breakfast, then left a Word with the cashier to tell me THIS-- {She is a Christian woman, as I am too.---}
Prophecy ..
That The Holy Spirit {whom I Love} wanted her to step-forward and PAY for my Breakfast-- that her Performing THIS would be a "symbolic ACT" that would hold significance, be IMPORTANT to me to know and realize.
That when OTHER-people do not do as they 'ought to have done' in my life--
There will ALSO have been other-people who witnessed, and *these watchers* will ALWAYS step-forward in my life "to fill-in the gaps" that other's wouldn't.
"There are ALWAYS "watchers" in the Background of your Life.
These people will Do Good by you."
Today, Hikaru--???
I Extend that Spirit-Promise, to YOU.
"New Breed" of Dinosaurs
Do Random Acts of Kindness--
In due-Season, it will come back to you...
Just by virtue of THIS conversation, Hikaru, let this message inform you that there ARE other people who Perform Good in this world, with a willingness to look-out for others' interests.
Be Blessed.