Happy post Labor Day & official end of "summer," I suppose. Even though we all know that in Missouri, we could be in misery with hot weather well into October. LOL
But I did have a fun short weekend with some of my favorite people in the whole world, so I'm feeling pretty blessed and happy about that, no matter what the season or weather is!
Anyway... I was inspired to write about kindness recently when my dad, who forwards The Daily Motivator to us well... um daily LOL, sent a post about kindness last week.
The song Revolutionary also randomly came up on my phone's vast library of music, and since it's about kindness as well... I thought, never mind about that post... I'm writing about those song lyrics instead.
But this morning while I was at BioLife donating plasma, I read a Facebook post a friend had shared about a young woman/mother who was abducted & subsequently murdered while she was out jogging recently.
Some of the tips she shared about going out to walk/run/hike alone made me think that I need to start sharing my location with a loved one while I'm out. Even though I almost always walk in a well populated area with a lot of traffic, something like this could happen to anyone, and I'm going to start doing it just to be safe.
Then shortly after that, while still sitting there minding my own business, a disturbing event happened that pretty much sealed the deal for me about blogging today.
I was hooked up to a machine and was in the middle of donating, when I heard the guy's machine next to me keep beeping.
Generally, this can mean a few things that are no big deal. They come over and fix the situation and you carry on as normal.
I had my air pods in listening to music to prep for my class tonight, so I didn't listen to the whole conversation until it seemed to be getting heated. But I paused my music in time to hear the girl that works there tell the guy, "we're going to have to end this early so you'll only get $20 for today."
First of all, ending early means you'll need to sit by the nurse's office so they can monitor you while you drink a Gatorade for about 15 minutes, since you won't get your normal saline return that happens at the end of the donating process.
I know this, because it's happened for me twice in the last year & 1/2.
But he loudly muttered something like "just don't worry about it," sat up and yanked the needle out of his arm with blood spattering literally everywhere.
Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't hit me because the floor in between us had blood all over it... his chair was covered, as was his donation machine that collects the plasma. He had blood splattered all over his arm, face and shirt, and as he walked away leaving a trail of blood, someone else walked toward him and said, "we need to wrap your arm." They did a half-ass job of it as he impatiently walked away mumbling and generally mad.
Like in need of anger-management, mad.
About $20.
Or perhaps about life in general.
Or perhaps because he's just generally an asshole, I don't know.
All I know is that I was shaking. The whole thing really rattled me and my heart was racing.
Same for the poor girl who was attending to him, who also had blood all over her when the guy's needle was yanked out.
She said if she would've had time to think, she may have lost her job because she wanted to punch him, but she was in a state of shock. I told her I would've thoroughly backed her decision to do that.
The people sitting across from me were shaking their heads too... one older man also currently donating like I was, and another woman who was waiting to get hooked up that appeared to be a nurse because she was wearing scrubs. The nurse however, said she was about to get up and knock the guy out, as she's dealt with situations like this too many times.
I did appreciate seeing how quickly everyone reacted and made sure the guy left.
He is also permanently banned from ever coming back. Good to know.
What is it though, that makes it seem like people are quicker to anger these days?
Whether it's in person, in traffic, on social media, politics, etc... it sometimes seems as if people have lost their minds.
And how a situation so small, can ignite a freakin time-bomb in someone leaving everyone in their path completely shaken.
I don't even know if I have adequate words to share, but instead I'll share a portion of the lyrics to this song. Any maybe I've already shared this song before, but I think it makes sense in a world where common sense doesn't always seem very common anymore.
Hope your September is off to a happy start!
But just a reminder to put yourself at the top of your daily to-do list.
Because trying to pour from an empty cup will eventually cause a ticking time-bomb... whether it's with your patience, sanity or overall physical health.
You can't adequately take care of other's needs without first taking care of your own.
And regular exercise can absolutely have a positive impact on your health and your mood...
XOXO
Maybe we don't agree
Maybe that doesn't mean
We gotta be enemies
Maybe we just get brave
Take a big leap of faith
Call a truce so me and you
Can find a better way
And we're gonna find we're more alike than we are different
When did we let hate get so ordinary?
Let's turn it around, flip the script
Judge slow, love quick
God help us get revolutionary
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