A shocking Monday

I have moved a lot in my life.  I am thankful today to admit I’m happy right where I am.  Being settled doesn’t mean I need my feet cemented in the ground.  It just means I’m content for now.  I have no doubt things will change in the next year or two but I’ll deal with them then.

After I moved into my flat, I realized that I had become somewhat of a soap pack rat.  After Christmas I found myself with a closet filled with fufu and shishi [girly] bottles of foamy flower smelling soaps.  I am not a pack rat by nature.  I’ve moved too much for this and couldn’t understand why I’d still had so much soap.  I ended up taking 4 bottles of it to work, and placing one bottle by each sink in the ladies bathroom.  The first time I did it, it was deliberate.  Everyone loved it.  A month later I found more soap.  I couldn’t understand why or WHERE all of this was coming from!?!  So I took the other bottles in as well.  About a week ago some stranger from across the hall [this is a huge building with about 1000 people working in it] walked into my office and said “Are you the woman putting that soap in the bathroom?”.  I said yes.  She then replied “everyone on that side of the floor just wanted to thank you”.  I laughed and said she was welcome lol.

This morning I walked into the ladies room and low and behold, there were four new bottles of scented soap, a bottle of hand lotion, a bottle of hair spray, and a few boxes of tea.   Pure kindness and an unknown gesture of paying it forward.  I hope that others continue the tradition and I will certainly throw my hat into the ring one or two more times.  Spreading anonymous joy and comfort is one of the benefits of being here.  I see and experience it every day [or at least I really try to notice!].

Namastae