December 2011
0 posts
What or who gives you hope?
I met the person who started this, by sitting outside the student centre of UBC with a few friends who were playing guitar and singing carols. I offered a stranger a chocolate, and asked him about his life, and afterwards walked a way with a new band, and a deep appreciation for a strangers desire to point out the good things that people do in the world.
Today, his actions gave me hope.
November 2011
6 posts
Everyone Wins
Just came home from watching the game with the boys. A 6-2 Oilers win, but the best part was having a chance to give. I had a $10 gift certificate with me and one of the guys also had a card that gave us 20% off the bill. Of course, house rules state that you can’t combine offers. I ended up giving the $10 GC to the waitress telling her to surprise a table. Giftband goes from right...
Coupons for love.
I recently purchased the popular “$10 for $20 at Wholefoods” Living Social deal and was pretty pumped for a great bargain. As I walked into Wholefoods I passed a homeless man standing in front of the store, drenched in rain, rattling an empty Timmy cup in his hand. It hit me, why should I use this coupon to double the amount of food I’ll be consuming, when I can be using the...
I believe!
I live each day doing one good deed because I believe not matter how small it will make an impact on someones life. I walked with a friend in a hurry to cross the street to get to a store before it closed. The light was changing and I noted that an elderly lady wouldn’t make it before the light changed. I told my friend to go ahead, checked my stride and walked side by side with her. She...
In the pool Give
So I went to swim some lengths rocking a fresh new Give band that Eland gave me about 2 hours earlier and I almost took it off before swimming but then thought “ah it doesn’t matter if it gets wet”. I’m swimming and swimming and this girl in the same lane as me who had been swimming without goggles the whole time said “Hey, my hair band fell out do you think you could...
Passing The Give on a Rainy Day
I became aware of this wonderful project through a friend of mine that gave me a band for doing a random act of kindness that she witnessed. I can’t even tell you what it was, but it made her pass a band to me and explain the meaning behind it. Every morning I get up and look at my right wrist determined to move that band to my left throughout the course of my day.
Just recently I was...