Have You Done a Good Deed Lately?

As we all know the world is losing its mind. We have an orange clown for a President who makes me incredibly sad that the country hasn't evolved in hundreds of years, North Korea is trying to shoot off missiles and shit, there's a handful of hurricanes and fires happening at once and giant ass earthquakes too. Despite all the craziness that is going on, I'm trying to find and remember the happiness that once was. With all the Nazi and white supremacy shit going on I had found myself trying to remind people there is still good in the world by posting puppy gifs on Twitter every day for the first week or so after the whole tiki torch racist bullshit. It might not be much but it's enough to make you forget for a split second that there are terrible humans in this world.

Now to the point of this post. A few nights ago I went to a Padres game and as I was walking back to my car I was excited to see this homeless man sitting with his little dog outside of the parking structure. I know it's weird to say I was excited to see a homeless person but I really was. I had seen him many times before on my way back to my car. He isn't vocal and sits there with a sign that asks for food. The first few times I would pass him I did what the majority of people would do, walk past and not make eye contact because I didn't want to feel like a terrible person for catching his gaze and giving false hope that I'd be able to help. Almost every time I got in my car and I was already on my way home I would remember that I had food in my purse that I knew I wasn't going to eat anytime soon. Last weekend, I went to the doubleheader and each time I went back to my car I looked to see if he was out there because I finally remembered ahead of time that I had food I could give him. He wasn't there. Well on Thursday night, he was there and like I said, I was excited to see him. I purposely walked up to him, probably getting in others ways, and pulled out some graham crackers I had in my purse and handed it to him. I told him I also had some water too and handed that to him as well. He was so grateful for the little food and water I had to give him that it made me so happy that I was able to do that for him.

I wasn't planning on writing about this because I'm a firm believer of not needing to let the world know you did a good deed. So I'm not telling this to humble brag about my kindness that night but to hopefully encourage others to do something nice for someone who needs it the most. I'm not the most empathetic or sympathetic person, I'm kind of a robot actually, but for some reason that man had been on my mind and I knew that I needed to do what I could for him. With all this craziness going on in the world I must be feeling the need to try and makeup for all the assholes. Unfortunately I will never be able to make up for all of them on my own so can the non assholes step up and help a girl out?!