One day, two of my friends took me to a coffee shop. The waitress had a long hair. She divided her hair into two, and braided to the front. The edge of the braided hair was in front of her chest area. When she brought the coffee to us, we all saw her hair was dipped to our coffee cups.
The waitress seemed like she didn’t notice that. She gently smiled at us, put our coffee on the table, and bowed to us politely, and left the table.
I was upset. I didn’t want to drink the coffee. When I was about to call the waitress to ask to replace the coffee, two of my friends gently stopped me doing so.
My friends told me the waitress didn’t do so on purpose. And she seemed like very busy. They didn’t want to embarrass her by calling her and asking for replacing the coffee. They told me in their gentle voice tone, it is not a big deal. Instead of spending time for being mad or complaining and blaming the waitress, let’s enjoy coffee and our conversation.
And, in the next instant, they started drinking the coffee as if nothing happened. After struggling for several seconds in my mind, I decided to let it go. And I started drinking coffee and enjoying the conversation with my friends.
This happened right before I moved to America, November 2008. Although it was long time ago, I still remember about this experience.
I consider this experience as a precious teaching from my friends. I learned on how to be kind to others, in this case, the waitress. But the truth is that I learned on how to be kind to myself.
At that time, three of us had an option to get upset with the waitress and asked for the replacement of the coffee. But we chose the other option. We chose the option to let it go and enjoy the moment. We chose to be kind to others as well as to ourselves.
Whenever we get upset or mad, our vibration instantly gets lowered. Being mad is not good at our body, mind, and spirit.
It can be applied to everybody in any situations. We might encounter a rude casher at the grocery store. We might be treated in a rude way from somebody. Whenever we can choose an option to forgive the rude person instead of getting mad at the person, we have chosen the option to be kind to the person as well as to ourselves. Let’s take good care of ourselves. And being kind to others makes us feel good too. Most of time, it is not a big deal. We can let it go. We can forgive others.
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