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Posted by Deneb on July 4, 2005, at 21:46:24
I think it is sometimes easy to forget about just how many people it takes to support our current lifestyle in the Western World.
Overlook nothing.
When people litter, others have to pick it up.
Is all that packaging on the stuff we buy really necessary?
Do you *have* to drive the car?
When you are angry after work and yell at a store clerk, that clerk will be upset as well.
I think we should all say/do some good things in our day to day life.
Say "Thank-you," to the bus driver.
Say nice things to the telemarketer instead of sarcastic or hurtful things.
Make your garbage easy for the garbage person to carry...maybe even draw a smilie face or thank-you on the bag.
Smile at everyone...observe what happens. :-)
Deneb
Posted by anastasia56 on July 5, 2005, at 0:21:32
In reply to Empathy for all types of people, posted by Deneb on July 4, 2005, at 21:46:24
jenny you are so right. And it is all those little things we do or can do that make a difference.
the other day i was at Long John Silvers for lunch with my mother. My mother gave the young girl behind the counter a ten dollar bill for a $6.46 total due. Being my mother she made some comment how she would have liked to have given her the 46 cents but she didn't have it (in order to reduce her change back).
the cashier took 50 cents from her own pocket and used it to pay for part of moms lunch. Now i've seen cashiers take several pennies from the counter jar before to make up change, but this was her own pocket and mom had plenty enough money to pay her bill.
I'm still not sure why she gave her the fifty cents...apparently so mom wouldn't have the excess change she didn't want?
When we left i took the fifty cents back up to the counter to the cashier and said "Have you ever seen the movie "Pay it Forward". She replied no. I explained it was a movie about how someone did something really nice for someone, unexpectedly. In order to pay it forward that person would then do something nice for someone else.
and so on, and so on. a chain reaction.
I gave her back the 50 cents and said "you were nice enough to offer this to my mother. Now we want you to keep it here by the register and the next homeless person or someone that looks like they could use a cool drink on these hot summer desert days...just put this money towards their bill.
A man and his young son were standing next to us. The man said "i really like the sounds of that. I want to put in too. Here's another $1.50...will that buy him a fish sandwich?? The cashier said yes.
we all left feeling happy. i was happy to see another human being join in. happy to know someone was going to get a drink and a fish sandwhich.
Guess it's an example, in a small way, of what can happen when people work together.
ana
Posted by partlycloudy on July 5, 2005, at 7:42:11
In reply to Re: Empathy for all types of people, posted by anastasia56 on July 5, 2005, at 0:21:32
What a great example of Paying it Forward!
I read an interesting editorial in yesterday's newspaper about (american) patriotism and how waving flags on the one hand, and on the other littering the streets and beaches shows disrespect to the country at the same time. It made me understand my own frustrations with the flag stuff to see it articulated that way.It really struck a chord with me, just as being empathetic with people leads to others being empathetic with us.
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