Sometimes you have to be putting yourself in the path of people who do good in the world. Came home and was eating my dinner, catching up with some of the stuff out there on the web and there was a link from Humans of New York. You remember how Brandon raised a whole lotta cash for the YMCA summer camp program… well, in a chance encounter today, he took a picture, talked to the guy and blam, did the simple thing that enabled the man and his wife to reunite their adopted daughter with her brother.
Simple thing. Tell the story, set up an IndieGoGo site and put it out there in the Humans of New York world as a VERY short term campaign. It happened so fast it was amazing. It wasn’t a huge amount of money but it would have taken the couple a long time to raise it. And now they can bring the brother home to them all and be one family.
It’s a good reminder that it’s not always a big thing we can do to change a mind, or a day or a life. But you have to choose to do it, whatever it takes.
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Oh, the averted crash? As I was waiting on the mall road tonight, leaving work, the car in front of me turned left just as I was waiting to do, only they turned left onto the off-ramp of the northway rather than onto the ON-ramp of the northway. That’s right, they were driving the wrong way onto the northway. I can’t believe how many times I honked my horn and he stopped. I stopped, wondering if he’d suddenly back up. (and no one behind me honked, which means they must have realized what was going on). And the cars who were now on the off-ramp actually split to allow the wrong-way guy to make an awkward left turn onto the right hand ramp of the off-ramp. O.M.G.
And that’s just how easy it is to end up driving the wrong way on a major highway…
