Random acts of kindness to people you know
May 6, 2009 by Rachel Goodchild
Filed under Beautiful You, Inner Beauty, Single Life, Singles
There are very few moments in my life when i do not like being single. Sure I get the occasional pang of aloneness; on cold winters nights when it’s definitely a stay in and snuggle with a DVD kind of night. or nights like tonight when I’ve got to go out for dinner and it’s going to be me, myself and I sitting at the table.
But in the main I love the independence of being single. Except for those moments I term “Need a man” moments. For the boy jobs around the home. I hate having to climb up on a chair to change a light bulb they can do without one. I loathe having to sort out the DVD player when a cable comes out, and having to make sure my car is safe for journeys? Please spare me!
So it was a very grumpy single girl who drove her car into the service station the other night. About to drive for three hours the last thing I wanted was to run out of oil and water. But it’s a BOYS job. And I didn’t want to do it.
I considered throwing a temper tantrum but might not have been a good look. I then got a phone call from a friend about something else. He was AWESOME. He listened to my moans and would have come and helped but he was a hundred kilometres away. So he did the next best thing. He talked me through it. He didn’t laugh at my weird and simplistic questions, and I got the job done.
I might not have had a change to my single status, but I certainly felt a lot less alone. And it felt great.
I am constantly amazed at the sheer generosity of people around me. It’s easy to be thankful for these moments- that cost others time and a little effort. but help you feel so much less isolated and having to do it all yourself. I often think it’s the best thing I’ve learnt from being single. That no woman or man can be an island- that even the fiercely independent and capable ones amongst us truly benefit from a little help from our friends.
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