Drive By....Charity?

I wasn't looking forward to today. It would be my first drive alone. The drive would take me on a freeway and down some congested city streets. I had only been to my destination twice with other passengers.

Needless to say, I was anxious, so I prayed before I went.

The drive went off without a hitch!

THEN GUESS WHAT. I had parked my car and was scurrying over to the permit purchasing station when a man in a truck yelled something out his window from about 20 feet away. Muffled, I did not hear him clearly. It sounded like a question so I walked over a few more feet, and he said,

"Do you need a parking pass?"

I said, "yes."

He handed me his pass, saying it was good for the entire day! He smiled, I smiled. It was like he was enjoying making my day, and I was very much enjoying having my day made!

I had zero anxiety at my meeting and I found myself being even more friendly than usual to others :)

You Made My Day on Facebook!

I was surfing Facebook today when I found an old friend. His name is Paul, and we met our first day of freshman band camp. We drifted apart after first year, but both ended up serving the UCLA Community Service Commission. He joined Best Buddies, and I was with Project WILD. He had a little paragraph update written about himself and it really hit me as a YMMD moment to see Paul continuing to serve communities as far away as in Costa Rica after graduation!

I like to smile.

I spent the last month in a small Costa Rican village where people smile a lot. I helped build 2km of sidewalk so that the kids can get to school safely. On the weekends I went to lots of awesome and romantic destinations that I'd rather have gone to on a honeymoon instead of with the 14 high school students whom I accompanied, but it was cool anyway.