Random acts of kindness.

I know it's not my turn to post, but that's okay.

I figured, we spend too much time judging people we don't know and assuming the worst about them and the best about ourselves in comparison.

Last evening when I was walking home from my stop, I passed by a group of women sitting on the steps outside the gym building. I was listening to a Beatles song on my iPod, and was walking past without giving them a second glance, when suddenly, one of the ladies jumped up and shouted "Excuse me!". She was loud enough to catch my attention. She ran up to me and brushed her hand across my neck. "There was something on your neck," she said. "A caterpillar or something," another woman said. And I just stood and stared. Managed a 'Thank you so much' and continued walking.

As I was walking, I happened to make eye contact with one of the strays. He decided it was time to start acknowledging my presence (as he did today as well), and started following me, sniffing at my bag. I wasn't in the best of moods so I tried shooing him away. But alas, he just shifted to my right side. Then, a man who was walking in the opposite direction saw this and very loudly said "Oye! Shoo!" or something. And doggie ran away.

Two strangers who jumped to my rescue.

Well, not really.

But it still made me feel all warm inside.