Do Good Recklessly
I was mindlessly surfing my social media feeds the other day and came upon a thread in which people were writing in telling stories of things they have done to help out a stranger. The stories ranged from buying a young mom’s groceries when her card was declined to buying medicine for a child or filling someone’s gas tank. In a Canadian storyline, there would no doubt be someone paying for the car behind them in the Tim Horton’s drive-through. Much of the feedback people received from their friend/family at the time indicated that they were foolish to do such things and they were likely “duped” or “scammed”.
Isn’t it sad that so many of us would immediately jump to that conclusion instead of seeing humanity and need in others. Thank goodness there are people in the world who do not jump to that conclusion and who do come to the aid of others in need.
The thread of stories ended with a call to action for all – “Do Good Recklessly”. We do so many other things recklessly (distracted driving or harming the environment as examples ) why not also do good with the same abandon?