This is a beautiful contribution by my dear friend Yuka, we used to work together here in London, unfortunately Yuka had to go back to Japan a few years ago, I love hearing and reading from her and she never fails to amaze me with her wise way of applying and expressing this wonderful emotional intelligence of hers.
Thank you Yuka. xxxx
I went to a post office in the city after work to mail christmas cards for friends.
i just went in there as usual, and was waiting in the queue. and my turn came.
it was a middle-aged lady who served me. she looked a bit slow at first, looked a bit unfamiliar with air mails and stuffs.
but once she found that my letters were all air mail, she started looking for some nice postal stamps with pictures of pretty japanese flowers.
and she was even trying to arrange the place to attach them and to make them look nice, as if they were her letters.
i was so touched by her kindness, and i couldn't stop myself saying how happy i was and i told her that it never happened before although i've done it many times in the past.
i expected just a usual machine-like service when i walked in there, but i was leaving there with a big smile.
it reassured me how such a little kindness can make someone happy. and now i hope that i can give that happiness to other people around me :)
it was like a trigger to remind me of something important but we tend to forget in our daily life, that we are living not on our own but interacting with other people including those who seem to be just strangers.
