🏊🎶😳Our Actions😊✔️🐶

 

🏊🎶😳Our Actions😊✔️🐶

Welcome Gen-X-Ers…. 🤗

I wanted to start this blog with a "Thank You" for checking in this week, I appreciate your continued support. I have to say each time you visit the web page, it’s extremely encouraging, many of you are loyal and keep coming back.

This leads me nicely to this week's subject!

Our actions - however insignificant you may think they are at the time, affect other people around us… let me explain!  

Do you know that your Action of committing to reading my blogs has encouraged me to look into furthering my writing skills?  I have bitten the bullet and enrolled on a 2-day Creative Writing workshop this August! As you will have gathered I am a complete novice and the course looks perfect. So a BIG thank you for all your comments of encouragement…. It means the world to me.

This week I have considered how every action we make in life affects other people. Here is an example you may be able to relate to; Did you ever watch a movie shot in black-and-white called "Schindler's List"? The only colour present was a red coat worn by a child, it was clear when she featured in various scenes throughout the film. The resulting impact was huge, highlighting the effect on this particular individual from actions and decisions made by the main character Schindler.

It’s easy as we live our daily lives to forget such details, I was reminded of this the other week by a seemingly insignificant action.

On decluttering my storeroom, I decided to throw out some purple scatter cushions, instead of putting them in the bin, I placed them next to it in a bag hoping someone would take them, use them and enjoy them. I didn’t think anything of it until yesterday when I walked my dog along the promenade in Arrecife and came upon the wooden bench with a wave-shaped sun shelter. It’s perfect if you want to stop, rest and sit for a while taking in the ocean views from the welcome cool shade. 

Between the benches right at the back is a small gap, where I spotted folded blankets, towels and flattened cardboard, a stash obviously kept safe here by a homeless person. To my surprise, I could see underneath the pile of neatly stored items the purple cushions. I was so pleased that someone had taken them, they must have appreciated a pillow under their head at night to combat the hard stone floor and nightly chills. This heart-felt reminder put a smile on my face, that one seemingly small decision I made helped another person in my neighbourhood.

I challenge you to think, what have you done today, this week or this year which felt insignificant at the time but resulted in changing someone else’s life for the better? 

Of course, our actions produce positive or negative knock-on effects, so it’s important to be mindful and show compassion! I always think that when our actions are based on good intentions our soul has no regrets.

Here's hoping my publishing this today may influence your next positive decision, and this butterfly effect in turn may just change someone else’s world today for the better 🥰

Catch up soon 💜M💜