This week my act of kindness is infinitely less important than the act of kindness that I received. To set the scene let it be known that due to my university’s parking situation I am almost always barely sneaking through the door of French class to make it on time. Any given morning that I am squeaking through the door I am under caffeinated and over capacity for the morning, but this past Thursday I said, “Nay, not on this glorious day of rigorous skills testing!” I didn’t have time for the good stuff (namely my regular cappuccino) but I had time to pop into 7/11 for some good old fashioned joe and creamer. At the register I had coffee in one hand, my backpack on backwards fishing for my wallet and my laptop perched perilously between my chin and backwards backpack. Not an ideal situation, BUT I feel inclined to again mention the importance of caffeine in my life. Meanwhile this nice man at the register beside me had just finished up paying for his coffee as well as the gentleman next to him. He was just about to turn and leave when he asked the woman helping at my register to ring my coffee up at his register. I was still a little unclear as to what was going on because my pre-coffee brain can only process so many things at once and I was already in the middle of my poor multitasking. I finally snatched my debit card from my wallet and flashed a victory smile at the cashier… Who was at the other register. I probably had gigantic question mark eyeballs. THEN I finally caught on. That nice gentleman said my coffee was on him! What a fantastic morning! Happy Thursday to me! Thank you kind sir! I let him know that I would most certainly be passing it forward and that I appreciated his charitable coffee gift.

I realized that what you put into the universe you truly do get back tenfold. I couldn’t help but wonder how that coffee trip would have went if I hadn’t spent these past few weeks injecting positivity into the universe. My unscientific guess is: much differently. The tenfold rule had always kept me from being a jerk (for the most part) but I didn’t realize the impact it could have on the positive interactions in my life. I’m excited to buy someone’s coffee next week.

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In other news my friend Robin and I bought 133 stems of flowers for $0.02 a piece and I bought my kitty catnip for the first time. Also, I managed to get dog pee on my outfit this morning and I can’t stop smelling it.

XOXO,

NBNealie