The world is a fantastic place to live. Love makes it spin and it's run by invisible heroes performing random, selfless acts of love and kindness. You will be graced by these invisible heroes for a brief moment in time. After performing these acts, they seemingly vanish and more often than not forever. We very seldom see or even hear from them again.
Some would call these heroes angels and these names are interchangeable to describe them. Early one Saturday morning whilst on a cycle training ride, I managed to hit a log in the road and fell of quite badly.
Lying on the very hard, rough road after grinding to a halt using mainly my left elbow, two such heroes came from the darkness up the road and without question, stopped their morning ride, put their bikes down to assist a complete stranger.
Asking nothing in return for their actions, they effectively picked me up, dusted me off, and checked I was adequately safe and healthy. Once they had confirmed that I was safe and had a plan to get help, I sent them on their way.
To this day, I could not identify these two people. I can tell you they are male and they were riding mountain bikes. That's it! It goes without saying that I am of course grateful and thankful to these two heroes for a simple and pretty random act of kindness.
Now that I have been on the receiving end of this fantastic yet random act of kindness, I can only hope and pray that one day, somewhere, you will receive such a gift. These angels or heroes are exactly that - a gift to you. It's a gift that you never think you will need nor one you could say you want. It is however, one you will never forget.
I hope that you have been on the receiving end of such kindness or love. I have to ask a little more than that though, have you ever been "the invisible hero?" Some years ago I have had the honour of being the hero.
True to the nature of the act, I received no credit for the act of saving a drowning mans life nor did I ask for any credit. I have now, some seventeen odd years later found out that It is certainly better to give than to receive in the situation of random acts of kindness.
This is a way of getting my "2 cents" heard but its now more than that. I use the portal to uplift, encourage and help others through experiences in life that I have been through and are going through.
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