Personal Stress Relief from Economic, Environmental Issues

This post is long overdue, this happened 2 days before Christmas.
As I’ve established previously, I shop in Wal-Mart. On this occasion I stopped to pick up a few things on the way home from work. As always and anxious to get home I rushed like a mad woman through the aisles and out the store.
Once home I unpacked and finally settled down to have a conversation on Skype with my son, Jason who is in Albany. We were talking and my house phone rang. As a general practice, I don’t answer the house phone because nine times out of ten it’s someone wanting money or a solicitation call. I ignored the call. A few minutes later the phone rang again. This time I heard the words, “your wife…..wallet…..Wal-Mart.” I cut my conversation short with Jason and ran to check the message.
The message was from a man who was calling my husband to tell him that I dropped my wallet in Wal-Mart and his wife picked it up. He was calling my husband because in case of emergency he is the contact. I feverishly went through my purse to find that indeed my wallet was missing. Needless to say, I called this man back immediately. It turned out that I dropped my wallet on the way out the door and his wife picked it up and took it home. He was calling to let me know so that we could come pick it up. Amazing!
I called Mike who was on his way home and told him the situation. I didn’t want to go alone so Mike picked me up and we headed over there. We arrived at their home and they handed me my wallet. I tried to give them money to say thank you but they wouldn’t take it. Their answer was that the same thing happened to them not too long ago. Their wallet was returned and they were so thankful that they vowed to “pay it forward.” They’re only request was that I too would “pay it forward” if the situation arises.
I thanked them for the best gift that I could have received for Christmas. When I returned home I wrote my heartfelt thanks in a Christmas card and sent it out. I look forward to someday “paying it forward.” It takes just one small gesture of kindness to make someone’s day. How wonderful it would be if we all performed an act of kindness every day!