This disabled lady and her husband were having lunch, and the husband was kept from eating because he also had to attend to his wife. Seeing this, their waiter stepped in and took over the feeding duties, allowing his customer to finish his meal.

People do these things, but it usually requires them to “go against the stream” in one way or another. For whatever reason, most humans fear to do anything that they don’t see others doing. And so, every time someone undertakes an independent good action, they are breaking the collective complacency.

Again for whatever reason, these uncomfortable first-actions seem to be required for goodness to spread and thrive.

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So, before going back to the mundane, remember a time when you acted on your own, against what you felt everyone else expected of you… a time when you went against the currents and acted first, because you knew it mattered. Spend a moment reliving it.