Day 7

January 7th

So this was probably the first day I really saw what I had imagined this project becoming, but it was in a rather crazy way.

So, I live in Wisconsin and today we got about 5-6 inches of snow which I had the joy of shoveling. Originally, I thought my nice act was going to be not complaining about how we don't have a snow blower, because that's my usual reaction to be forced to shovel. However, God had different plans for me. So I saw this creepy guy kind of just walking back and forth down the street and I was super confused what he was doing, but I decided when I went inside to close the garage door because I thought he might try to steal something. On my way to put the shovel away, I saw three of my little neighbor girls out in my backyard snowboarding down my hill, and I decided my nice thing would be to go play with them. So I took my ipod and phone out of my pockets and put them inside, closed the garage door and went out back to play with them and had a great time sledding and having snow fights. They also tried to teach me to snowboard but I failed. They made it look so easy.

So, at this point it's about 2pm and I haven't eaten anything all day because I decided to shovel before I ate lunch. So I told the girls that I was going to grab some lunch and would be back out later. So I walk to my back door of my garage to find it locked. I hear three little laughs behind me (If they didn't have the cutest laughs in the world, this would have annoyed me) So they continue to follow me around my entire house to find every single door locked. So, I go back over to there house to see if their dad has a spare key to our house. Of course not, my family does not prepare for these things. Instead, though, my neighbor scott just handed me his car keys and his cell phone and told me to go find my mom at work and get her keys. Keep in mind the roads were terrible at this point, but my neighbor still trusted me to handle his car safely. I've never had anyone be so nice to me and expect nothing in return.

It was this nice act that reminded me why I'm trying to do this. Because after being the recipient of his nice act, I was just in such a great mood. The more nice acts we do for each other, the more infectious these good moods could be.

So thanks Neighbors for being my Thursday and for always being my nice inspirations!

Be Nice :)