Gratitude Monday & The Smoking Lady
Monday October 10, 2011
I still LOVE this pic!
Welcome to Gratitude Monday. Each Monday, stop by & comment on what you are grateful for & how it will impact you to live a healthier life going forward. How it impacts you does not have to be food or exercise related. It can be in any way, shape or form! If you just want to write a grateful comment & nothing else, that is fine too. If your comment is the same as another one, so be it. Everything goes here!
If you recall, a couple weeks ago for Gratitude Monday, I wrote about offering up a kind word to people, even those you don't know, to make them feel better & pass on a smile. These little acts of kindness can make a person's day. They might even turn around a whole string of bad luck for a person & set them on the right track. We really have no idea how a small act can impact another person's life.
Yesterday, as I was doing my weekly outside run. It was a beautiful cool & clear day here & awesome sunrise so I already had it going good! My Hoka shoes were helping me thru & I was enjoying the beautiful morn.
As I was close to finishing, I passed a lady sitting on the curb outside her house in her PJ's smoking a cigarette. As I ran by, she said: "you look amazing". I thanked her, smiled & "puffed" (it was close to the end of an 80 minute run) - HARD WORK! She held up her cigarette. I breathlessly said, hopefully you can quit & she said she was trying.
It all caught me off guard as I get up with my curly/frizzy hair in all directions, put on a headband & out I go, hormone ravaged face & all. Heck, I go to the gym like that & there are lights in there!
The thing that really surprised me though was since it was a cool morn here, I had a long sleeve shirt on so my arms were not visible. Usually, when people comment to me out & about, it is always about my arms. Every so often my legs might get a comment but mostly my arms & they were covered!
SO - those kind words from a smoking lady made my day!!!!!!!!!! We never know where kindness will come from.....
How can you make a difference today & what things are making you thankful today?
I still LOVE this pic!
Welcome to Gratitude Monday. Each Monday, stop by & comment on what you are grateful for & how it will impact you to live a healthier life going forward. How it impacts you does not have to be food or exercise related. It can be in any way, shape or form! If you just want to write a grateful comment & nothing else, that is fine too. If your comment is the same as another one, so be it. Everything goes here!
If you recall, a couple weeks ago for Gratitude Monday, I wrote about offering up a kind word to people, even those you don't know, to make them feel better & pass on a smile. These little acts of kindness can make a person's day. They might even turn around a whole string of bad luck for a person & set them on the right track. We really have no idea how a small act can impact another person's life.
Yesterday, as I was doing my weekly outside run. It was a beautiful cool & clear day here & awesome sunrise so I already had it going good! My Hoka shoes were helping me thru & I was enjoying the beautiful morn.
As I was close to finishing, I passed a lady sitting on the curb outside her house in her PJ's smoking a cigarette. As I ran by, she said: "you look amazing". I thanked her, smiled & "puffed" (it was close to the end of an 80 minute run) - HARD WORK! She held up her cigarette. I breathlessly said, hopefully you can quit & she said she was trying.
It all caught me off guard as I get up with my curly/frizzy hair in all directions, put on a headband & out I go, hormone ravaged face & all. Heck, I go to the gym like that & there are lights in there!
The thing that really surprised me though was since it was a cool morn here, I had a long sleeve shirt on so my arms were not visible. Usually, when people comment to me out & about, it is always about my arms. Every so often my legs might get a comment but mostly my arms & they were covered!SO - those kind words from a smoking lady made my day!!!!!!!!!! We never know where kindness will come from.....
How can you make a difference today & what things are making you thankful today?
Posted by truth2beingfit at 10/9/2011 9:10 PM 
Categories: Giving, Happiness, Gratitude
Tags: gratitude grateful thankful giving smile Happiness random acts of kindness
Categories: Giving, Happiness, Gratitude
Tags: gratitude grateful thankful giving smile Happiness random acts of kindness
Great job on your run Jody! Sounds delightful!
I hope to be able to be positive today, its my first day back to work since vacationing in Florida for a week. I am not quite ready to return.
I am grateful to had the chance to vacation in such a beautiful place this year.
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I'm grateful for a lot today, but at the top of the list: I had the opportunity to spend the weekend with 3 amazing women (all fellow bloggers)! Fun and eye-opening times!
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Cammy - I loved reading you post about that & Karen's too - how fun!!!
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I'm grateful that Columbus (and you) had a good sense of direction
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Thx Dr. J!!! And yes to Columbus!
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Grateful this morning for all the inspiration I find here!
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Thx Crabby!
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Cammy stole mine! Really, I am so grateful for my recent experience meeting other bloggers and finding them to be as genuine and fun as I imagined. And smart!
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I loved reading about your meeting AND THE PIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i think that is so neat about that lady saying that nice comment to you. amazing how one nice thing like that can make our day and stay with us forever. i remember being like 7 years old and the lady hair dresser told me i had such pretty eyes. i am 35 now and i will never forget that. i guess we should all try to do this for others. thanks jody!
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Lisa, you 3 sisters are beautiful & all of you & those darn cute kids have those eyes too!
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Hi Jody, love the comments from the smokin' lady. I am still grateful for my health, for the long weekend, my wonderful friends and pumpkin pie spice. Have a great day.
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Roz, your posts & all the fun you have make me grateful to read them!
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Hopefully you inspired that woman to think a little bit.
I am very grateful for the phenomenal weather we had this last weekend!
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Its the long weekend for me and I am grateful for that to play legos with the kids and hang out with them.
I am a newbie to the fitness blogging and was looking for inspiring blogs. Stumbled upon yours. Adding you to my blogroll.
afitnessjournal.blogspot.com – Do visit when you get a chance. Would greatly appreciate your feedback.
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Geeta, thank you for "finding me" & your comment! I will stop by!!!
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