Day 45

February 25, 2014

Day 2 of my internship - donezo!!

All the employees I work with are super friendly, gorgeous and sweet. Their willingness to help me with everything encourages me and makes my internship so much more bearable.

Anyways, I came home and ate jjapagetti which was good. But I need to start eating more healthy now because I've been eating only sweets and carbs - no bueno.

Tonight I went to HTB (the church that I've been attending whilst in London) because they have uni student connect groups on Tuesdays! I got to meet a lot of brits even though I can't, unfortunately, remember most of their names.... I did leave a bit early because I was feeling too exhausted from work. I stopped by Tesco, a local grocery, to get some cappuccino mix, honey, Nutella and SRIRACHA!!!!! Yes. They have it here... Made me so heppi :')

I realized that there are so many homeless people in my area even though it's considered a "wealthy" neighborhood. About 99% of the time, I ignore those people who ask for my change, often because I actually don't carry around any change/cash. But lately, I've been feeling more burdened to help them so even if I don't have any money to give them, I ask them if they would like something to eat so that I can quickly run over to the grocery store. But each time I've asked that, they kindly said that they already had food so that it was okay.

By no means am I saying it to brag, but it's just funny how much happier it makes me to be in a position to help someone even if it's a small gesture. Like today at my internship, because I'm still learning how to use the databases and to create proposals for potential clients, I have to constantly ask questions to make sure what I'm doing is accurate and correct. But it's not easy because everyone is so busy that the thought of having to stop someone to ask questions discourages me from doing so. But this one employee has been so sweet and helpful about everything. And just her rubbing my shoulder and encouraging me with her words of kindness has made me feel so much more confident and happier to actually be completing those tasks that I were assigned to. It's really the idea of "paying it forward" - someone shows an act of kindness to one person who then does the same and it creates this domino effect. I'm not sure where I'm going with this but these are just some thoughts that have been floating around in my head and I felt the need to put it out somewhere.

I feel as if kindness is so underrated lately, which may be why when a stranger even holds a door for someone, that person feels the need to tweet or publicly share that experience.

This world could use a lot more kindness and compassion


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