Car meter

           As you can imagine I am uber excited about this project. I have 365 opportunities to impact somebody's life positively and also better myself in the process. I really dont know how I intend to complete it, but there's so much good in this world and so many wonderful people to draw inspiration from that I know I'll be fine.
            That being said, the first day was very intimidating for me. My competitive/overachieving side wanted to immediately save the world, but i quickly came to realization that that might not happen today lol. So as I was walking to the school's car garage, still contemplating on what to do, I noticed a parking meter that had expired but still had a car parked. Usually I would have walked right past it, but my brain being on help mode quickly noticed it. So I stopped and filled it up to an hour because I only had 4 quarters and continued on my way. I got into my car and was still deep in thought about what to do when it hit me. I had just performed an act of kindness and didn't even pay attention to it because no one was there to thank me/it seemed so little. There was no applause, no thanks, no smile, no prayers nothing. I was the only one that knew about what I just did and the owner of the car would probably drive off not noticing it either.
           For a moment that was pretty hard for me to come to terms with, but I quickly realized that that is life. You will not receive a "thank you" for every good deed you do. There are tons of people who do extraordinary things everyday that go unnoticed and never stop. So why should this deter me? There has to be something else that motivates you apart from the gratitude, and it's up to you to find out what it is. For me it is the feeling I get and my wanting to always leave a place better than I met it. There is such a sense of pride and improved self worth that wells up inside of you that words really can't describe. All I can say is that I was smiling a whole lot afterward and probably looked a bit crazy. I could have saved the person some money, made them feel good knowing that someone took the time to be nice or had no profound effect on them.Who knows.....
           So today I learned two things.  I learned that not every good deed has to be elaborate, expensive or big and that I will not get thanked for everything I do along the way. I'm actually content with that because the feeling I had today was PRICELESS! I have no clue what I'm going to do tomorrow but I'm looking forward to it. Hmmmm I really have no idea, scary lol... Goodnight World!