Soon we will start putting up posters and sending out fliers to advertise our Annual Garage Sale. these fliers go to every home in our district, we rely on the kindness of volunteers to pick a street, and pop fliers in every letterbox, there’s around 1300 letter boxes, we can certainly do with the help!. In our community we dig in, and just do what it takes to get the little stuff done.
Several years ago I was the receiver of a ‘random act of kindness’, we had moved to the area, built a house and just getting on our feet when the recession kicked in the space of 6 months we lost our livelihood for nearly 10 months due to redundancy, then suffered the loss of a baby boy, and a much loved family member, we muddled on, and sometimes for me was a struggle to leave the house.
I bumped into a ‘local’ who decided to ‘take the Mickey’ out of me and say ” hey, I see you’ve finished your house freaking ages ago- when are you going to do something about that bloody eyesore footpath, I bet your neighbours LOVE you”…
I mumbled something about having had a bit of a crappy last 6 months and it was ‘on the list’ to do’. He said “my boss, said I can have the day off so you better your land rover to my place and we pick up some boxing and we deal to your bloody footpath aye”.
So for the next 2 hours spent the morning being ‘labourer’ to Carl The Awesome while he brandished his levels, pegs and strings and did his concrete cutting magic and I scraped up the cash (from the Rainy Day jar) and by 1pm he had a big truck arrive with the concrete mix and ‘dealt to that ‘eyesore footpath’.
So, my philosophy in life is to always try an pay a little kindness forward, or even help on a committee, sometimes a random act of Awesomeness or Kindness can really lift a persons spirits. It sure lifted mine…
From Linda, proud owner of a tidy footpath, and the Plunket team at Martinborough
