It’s been year another crazy week here in the life of Lauren to the point where once more, my poor blog has been put on the back-burner. I still haven’t been able to upload the video of myself giving Lily the bath so I think it’s permanently stuck on my camera until I can get those technical issues sorted out. In the meantime, here’s something new that I’ve done this week!
I finally got to pay it forward for someone. This week was a pretty stressful one for me. I had multiple tests stacked on top of each other, my boyfriend was without a car and had to borrow mine to get to and from work only to find out my car needed an oil change
and tire rotation. So I take it to the dealership and I’m told it needs new brakes as well. Bam. $600 gone just like that which was essentially an entire months worth of paychecks. After working so hard and wanting to treat myself for my birthday this upcoming Saturday, that just downright SUCKED. On top of that, I found out that my two closest Aggie friends weren’t going to be able to make it out here to San Marcos for my birthday and I was really hoping we could get the gang back together again and have some fun. It was just a lame week and I was down on my luck. So why not try and make someone else’s day? Maybe they were having a crappy day or week just like myself and any little smile could do some good.
and tire rotation. So I take it to the dealership and I’m told it needs new brakes as well. Bam. $600 gone just like that which was essentially an entire months worth of paychecks. After working so hard and wanting to treat myself for my birthday this upcoming Saturday, that just downright SUCKED. On top of that, I found out that my two closest Aggie friends weren’t going to be able to make it out here to San Marcos for my birthday and I was really hoping we could get the gang back together again and have some fun. It was just a lame week and I was down on my luck. So why not try and make someone else’s day? Maybe they were having a crappy day or week just like myself and any little smile could do some good.
Earlier today my roommate and I went on our Starbucks run before we cracked down on homework and study guides back at the apartment. Instead of going in, we decided to drive-thru it. I’m currently a partner at this Starbucks and I personally LOVE it when people pay for the car behind them so I decided to do that too. I paid for our drinks as well as the person behind me. Now, it seems like something small to do and yeah, it kind of is but it’s something that I’ve always wanted to do. I like making other people happy and often put my friends and family’s happiness above my own which in its own is kind of a blessing and a curse wrapped up in one.
The thing I like about doing something small like paying it forward for a total stranger is that I don’t want the recognition. I don’t want to be seen as some hero just because I did something nice. Shouldn’t that be seen as human nature? I just wanted to do something nice. Maybe they were having a crappy day, too. Maybe nothing was going right in their day- they couldn’t get their car started on the way to work, they got dumped, lost their cat…something, anything. Maybe that coffee was the pick me up that they needed for the day. It made me feel a little better myself knowing that someone else might’ve been feeling better and hopefully inspired them to pay it forward too.
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