00:00hi guys I wanted to jump on and share a really nice story with you so something
00:07happened to me a few days ago that I really do feel is worth sharing because
00:11it's something that I'm certainly never going to forget so it was a sort of a
00:17cloudy day and it was school pickup day so I had Spencer in the pram and we got
00:21on the tram we went into my daughter's school picked her up and as we were
00:25coming home the sky was getting darker and darker and sure enough when we got
00:30off the tram it started to rain and as we were coming down the road towards home
00:36it started to rain really heavily so of course I don't have an umbrella I'm stuck
00:42with two children no umbrella and a busy intersection as well so we're at the
00:49lights waiting for the lights to turn green which of course they're not it
00:52really was bucking down and um and I remember Amity was saying oh we're
00:57getting all wet and then I mean I'm vaguely realized that there were people around
01:01us as well like mostly with umbrellas but then all of a sudden two people I've
01:07never met before two really lovely people stepped step towards me holding an
01:14umbrella like the gentleman had an umbrella in his hand and he was giving it
01:20to me and of course your first reaction is like you know they did have another
01:24umbrella too so it was it was a it was a couple it was a gentleman and a lady
01:29with him and she was holding an umbrella but it wasn't up so they were sharing
01:33the same umbrella that he was about to give me and my your first instinct is oh
01:38we're right we're right you know but they they were quite insistent they said
01:42you know you sure you sure you don't want this umbrella and my kids are
01:46getting wet I'm getting wet and just something in me moved me to accept their
01:50gift and and so I took the umbrella and I said thank you so much and they was
01:58they were just so nice in that gesture and I could I could see the relief in my
02:03daughter's face because she had a bag on her back and not only did she have her
02:07backpack but then I was carrying as well a canvas bag that holds her iPad and
02:13some books and that canvas bag is like a tote bag isn't waterproof and even though
02:18I had the cover on the pram rain still getting into the pram and so I could see
02:22the relief in my daughter's face as well and I was just so moved and and I just I
02:28just said thank you so much and they were just really kind and we didn't
02:34exchange any more words than that because then the lights changed and they
02:38started to move off and the lady put up their umbrella that they were now going
02:42to share and and that's not the end of it she then looked back at me several
02:48times as they moved off because I was kind of just left standing there with this
02:53umbrella so if you haven't guessed yet it's actually this umbrella and and I was
02:58left standing here with this beautiful big umbrella my children now under shelter just
03:04sort of still a little bit flabbergasted that total strangers gave us an umbrella
03:08and knowing that I would probably never see them again in my life and and as I
03:13walked off the lady looked back at me I think three times and and each time our
03:20eyes met and and it was just the way she looked at me and that's probably what's
03:26going to stay with me I think forever it was such deep kindness in her eyes like it
03:32was just her eyes were kind of shining as she looked back at me like just shining
03:38with so much friendship and so much care and it was almost like I see you that that's how I
03:46felt
03:46that she was looking at me it was like I see you you know I know the struggle it was
03:55it was that I
03:57think it was the way she looked at me that just so kind you know it was like she
04:05really saw in that moment and really saw through right into me you know like almost
04:12like to say from heart to heart I see you I know how hard it is with kids and I'm
04:19happy to have helped you that was what her eyes were saying and um and you know my
04:27daughter too what an example for her and both of us kind of left standing there you
04:32know and and then we cross the road and and for about almost the whole way home
04:37then my daughter kept saying as well she kept looking at me and she's saying she
04:41kept saying that was really nice mom and I said yeah that was really nice and um
04:49it was it was just such a moment of kindness that I think we don't see enough
04:57of these days I think and we live here on the Gold Coast and the Gold Coast is a
05:04beautiful place and wherever you live in this world you find your people and I've
05:08certainly found my people here on the Gold Coast like really beautiful people we
05:13have here but there it's also a fast-paced city and so there's also a lot of
05:17stress there's also a lot of people that are rushing a lot and so you you do run
05:23into quite a lot of throughout your day-to-day like I joke to other locals
05:27I've nearly been run over at the pedestrian lights multiple times like if I
05:32don't catch a driver's eye now I don't dare go across the pedestrian lights
05:36because we do have quite a lot of drivers that are obviously under a lot of
05:40pressure themselves and and what have you so and you know a lot of time people are on
05:45their devices as well and so I think I'm not I don't know if we get that heart to
05:51heart connection as much as maybe we should and that was just a really good
05:56reminder how how you can touch someone else by a moment of real kindness and um
06:03and so this umbrella it's a it's a beautiful umbrella and it's in my as in
06:11our home now and it's certainly not an umbrella to me anymore I mean it's an
06:16umbrella that we will use like it's absolutely beautiful umbrella it's large
06:21enough for me when I take the kids out but it's more than an umbrella now for me
06:26like it's just become a symbol you know every time I look at this umbrella I'm
06:30reminded how much a moment of kindness can mean to somebody how much it meant to
06:35me in that moment it's become an inspiration that if I ever see someone in
06:41need and it's it's become a validation of something that I think I have always
06:48really known inside myself and that is that I do believe that inside every human
06:56is the instinct to help another human in need I really do believe that we have
07:02that instinct in us and so this umbrella has just become that symbol for me and
07:07that reminder that if you see someone else in need to give them a hand and and
07:13that kindness does exist kindness is in us and I think strangers are just friends
07:21we haven't met yet
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