We all have "off days". Yesterday was one of those, and I'll confess to thinking that maybe the world was already asking enough of me. I was tired and feeling bounced around a lot by the numerous and competing forces in my life. Finding another way to give yesterday felt like it was just going to take too much. The best and most that I could muster was a smile for a stranger who looked down on his luck, and like he could use a smile, at the very least.
We often hear the phrase "give what you can", and yesterday I felt like I did give what I could. It still felt good to allow my mind to float toward giving on a day that was very "off", and it probably helped to keep me from sinking too far beneath the surface.
Today is better. I decided to get the giving off to an early start, and look for little ways throughout the day to build momentum again. I'll write about those efforts in another post. Today, this morning, I am writing merely to acknowledge that it doesn't need to be perfect, or even big. It only needs to be genuine.
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