Sometimes we get so busy living our own lives that we forget to notice what is happening around us. Specifically, we fail to notice when others need our help or assistance. It’s okay and completely understandable. Our world is filled with a constant flow of information and the need to be connected at all times is increasing. Our families are busier than ever keeping up with work, school, activities, and life in general. It’s hard to take a moment to step away, look around, slow down, and perhaps to find ways to help others in our community.
Keri Marie Carlson, a waitress at GW Carson’s in Branford, Connecticut, is a single mom of two kids. She has an 8-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son. Carlson also donates her time as a volunteer princess for the organization CT Princess Parties LLC, where she arrives as a princess at parties held for children with special needs. As you can imagine, she is pretty busy. And one more thing—she needs hearing aids in both ears to be able to hear.
When one of her hearing aids broke, a customer at the restaurant where she works noticed that he had to repeat himself a few times when speaking with Keri. Instead of becoming frustrated, he took the time to notice that she was only wearing one hearing aid. She didn’t yet have the money needed to fix the other one.
So, the kind man offered her $500 so that she could get it fixed, and wouldn’t allow her to turn it down and soon, she was in tears. What a lovely reminder that good things happen to good people! In addition, the owner of the restaurant offered to donate part of the money earned in t-shirt sales to the American Society for Deaf Children.
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