My Journey With Health And Fitness – Remember To Be Kind

It was an interesting class at the fitness centre this morning. I was actually quite organized this morning and since it was frosty decided to remote start my vehicle and give it time to warm up. That was a good plan except yesterday when using my vehicle my husband turned off the heat. I was still seething when I got to class but doing a challenging workout using step platforms took the edge off. I did enjoy the class because it was something different.

Yesterday was St Patrick’s day and we decided to go to a local craft beer place to celebrate. My sister and I got there first and the place was packed but we were fortunate to find a table. My husband was helping me with one of my foster dogs so he got there about a 1/2 hour after we did and by that point the place was at capacity so he had to get in line to be let in. It would be another 45 minutes before he would actually make it inside for a beer.

Now we had taken a small table that sat 4 as we expected a friend to arrive so we had 2 empty chairs. This woman comes up to us and demands to know if we were saving these chairs and we responded that we were. She started making snarky comments about how we weren’t allowed to do that. My sister advised her that my husband was outside waiting to get in to which the woman responded that that shouldn’t matter. She was extremely rude and aggressive and I wondered why she felt that kind of attitude was necessary in a place where everyone else was just out to have some fun. I should note, one of the staff came by asking if we needed both the empty chairs (we explained about my husband being outside) but realizing our friend was not going to show up offer we immediately offered up the chair.

Now that woman could have made our experience disappointing but there were others there that made up for it. As a matter of fact, a friend of the woman came up to us later and apologized for her behaviour saying she does that all the time and it is quite uncomfortable. Even nicer though was the reaction to the picture of our brother in that same brewery on the same date last year they we had brought with us. When people would ask who it was we explained how we lost him last year. Word got around the room and people came over to hug us, shake our hands and raise a toast to our little brother. That kindness is what I will remember most about yesterday, complete strangers just being decent people.

And so remember to be kind. The world is a better place when we are nice to each other and quite frankly you will feel better for it.