When you are down and out

One of the best things you can do, when you are feeling bad, is to reach out and help another person. I know when I am down and out, for whatever reason, I am pulled into my own pity party and become as demagnetized as cement. Yet all I need to do is go somewhere, even to the store, to find someone to talk to, to smile at, to help and my day becomes transformed. There is magic here because you feel so good when you help another person.

In fact, just connecting to another person when you are down and out is vital. This makes me think of the homeless on the street. How they must feel. When my eldest son was little, he used to go up and kiss them, and he always wanted to give them a coin. I think giving them the time of day is even going a step further. 

When we see the good in others, it helps them see in it themselves and we both gain from the process. These people offer us the chance of a lifetime, the chance to give, because in giving we receive. They might just be the ones behind the slow transformation taking place, they might be angels in disguise! But whatever else, reaching out to others is really the best way of mending a hurt heart. After all, the golden rule has been around a lot longer than we have!