Day 27: RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS

Today I was down in Encinitas for a surf contest. I was on my way to the beach in the early, pre-light hours of the morning, when i stopped at a local coffee shop along the side of the Pacific Coast Highway. Outside the coffee shop was a homeless man, asking for change to get a coffee. At that early hour, there weren't many other people passing by. This meant that, no matter how successful he was at asking for spare change, a cup of coffee was a goal that would take hours to achieve. I thought that rather than giving him my little change, only helping him get to his eventual success of a morning cup-a-joe, I'd just go ahead and get a cup for him. I came to this conclusion after ordering my coffee, and just before the lay behind the register finalized the same, I slid back out the front door, and asked him how he took his coffee, and proceeded to order him a cup. Upon exiting the shop,and handing him the hot, steaming large cup of coffee, almost dramatized by the cold, foggy morning that it was.  His eyes lit up, as he responded with an earnest "god bless you". A simple cup of coffee might not have done all that much in the long run to affect his life or anything, but making his challenging day that much better, and that much easier most definatly  had an effect on the both of us.