Kindness Goes a Long Way
I am not a good dancer although I wished I
was. I don’t play any sports although I
wished I can. I wanted to join the
cheering squad but it was not my forte.
Every single year, my struggle in being an honor student was…my grade in
P.E.
I was thin.
I was sickly. I had asthma. Believe me, I tried but it just won’t happen
for me.
On my 4th year in High School, I
wanted my father to see me go up the stage with honors. He deserves that and more for the sleepless
nights he spent creating SALN’s to send us to the best school in town. I know that my grade in P.E. will be a
challenge again.
On one stormy day, I saw my P.E. teacher
walking right outside the gate of the school.
My impulse said she needed help. I
told her,” Where do you live? Can I give
you a ride?” She told me in almost a
decade of being a P.E. teacher here, you are my only student who offered to
give me a ride. Every day she would walk
at least 500 meters to her house. Our
service car then was a Toyota FX. While
my other classmates rode in luxury cars like BMW’s, Benz or Pajero’s my teacher
never had a chance to ride with them.
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| Picture not mine - We sold our FX a long time ago... |
After that, we built a special unspoken
type of relationship. She asked me to
carry her radio back to the faculty room after our class. She appointed me as scorer for the
games. When I got my report card, I got
a 92 on P.E. That was a first!
Lesson: Plant seeds of kindness and you
will be rewarded beyond what you expected.
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