Thursday, January 22, 2009

#39 Help a stranger

It has been a busy few weeks for me! I'm stage managing a show, that will be opening in two weeks. It's called "I love you, you're perfect, now change" and it being put on by my friends at Ray of Light Theatre (www.roltheatre.com) for more information!

I was on the T Train Tuesday morning, and especially tired...most likely because of rehearsals. I've pretty much stopped reading on my commutes and have started sleeping on the train, well at least closing my eyes and tuning out the world...or trying to.

There was a woman on the train that was looking for an elementary school. She went up and asked the driver where it was, and he didn't know. He made an announcement on the train asking if anyone knew where it was. No one did. The woman was going to be a substitute teacher for this school, and it was her first time working at this particular location. I then remembered a handy feature on my phone called live search. I found the school, pulled up a map and was able to tell her which bus to take and where to get off the train. We chatted for the rest of the trip, and it turns out she used to teach college level theatre. It's a small world.

I'm marking this item as complete. I didn't change the world, but I'd like to think that random acts of kindness can have a rippling effect.

1 comment:

  1. okay, so i'm just catching up on this now... but i agree with that last statement there. i did a good deed for someone a few weeks ago and it was sorta inspiring- the guy was SO grateful that i wanted to try to do one good deed every day (and i was going to blog about it) but then it was the weekend and i got selfish and... yeah. that was the end of that one. since this is the first comment i'm leaving and i'm not sure how to tell you who i am, it's morgan... and i'm computer illiterate.

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