#2 Patience
What goes around comes back in the same force. Treat others the way you want them to treat you. Mostly, the best learning moments of our life doesn't take place in a classroom, they come randomly in front of us at least expected arenas.
This time, it happened in a shopping mall.
Sarah Bigler witnessed a random act of kindness and decided to share it with the world. She shared this incident on Facebook.
Sarah's Story
Sarah was standing in the line to pay for the stuff she wanted to buy and she had only one person ahead. She writes "After placing my items, I look up to see that the person ahead of me was an elderly woman. She was paying for her items with change and wanted to purchase each separately."
She was tired as she had a long day at work She was obviously very frustrated. She further wrote, "the part that had a long day at work, the part of me who had a 1 1/2 year old having a melt down in the cart, the part that had set an unnecessary timeline for Target and getting home, was frustrated with this woman and the inconvenience she had placed on me."
But then suddenly, she saw something that transformed her frustration into an unexpected realization of the importance of patience and kindness.
Keep reading ahead to know how...
The Act Of Kindness
A simple act of kindness and patience transformed her frustration into unexpected realization. She wrote, "I watched the young employee with this woman. I watched him help her count her change, ever so tenderly taking it from her shaking hands. I listened to him repeatedly saying 'yes, mam' to her."
She further added, "When she asked if she had enough to buy a reusable bag, he told her she did and went two lines over to get one for her and then repackaged her items. Never once did this employee huff, gruff or roll his eyes. He was nothing but patient and kind."
This is not it, she concluded with the best possible result.
#1 The Final Outcome
The best thing that happened after this incident is that Sarah's daughter learned a very important lesson out of this. She mentioned, "As I was watching him, I saw that Eloise was too. She was standing next to the woman, watching the employee count the change. I realized I hadn't been inconvenienced at all."
Her daughter learned a very important lesson here. Lesson of Patience and Kindness. She finally concluded saying that "When the woman was finished, the employee began ringing up my items and thanked me for my patience. I then thanked him for teaching us patience and kindness by his treatment of that elderly woman."
This is a very important lesson indeed. Try and be patient. Patience and kindness can win you every battle in this world.
