Always Do the Right Thing

I am a firm believer of doing the right thing in life. I guess I believe in Karma or just the idea that whatever you choose to do in life will come back to a thousand fold. So far, life has been pretty sweet to me, with some minor bumps and bruises, so I must be choosing well, at least most of the time. Yesterday my theory was reinforced for me yet again. I was walking to work on a rainy morning and I found a wallet on the sidewalk. I paused and gave it a little kick and noticed that it seemed recently dropped. I picked it up and saw that it belonged to an ESL student, I figured, I would take it to work and call the guy's school to let him know that he could come to the Roundhouse to pick it up. I also noticed that it had $125 in it. I would be totally lying if I said that I wasn't contemplating what that money could buy. Eventhough Adam and I are both working, it always seems that the last couple days before payday the money is all spent. When I got to work I showed Sandy and joked to her that we should go and buy $100 worth of lottery tickets. Of course she just said "Do the right thing" and I knew it too. This is no time in my life to be tempting fate, I say! Well, Alvin, the owner of the wallet showed up and was very grateful to have it back in tact. So grateful that after he left, he came back in and dropped off an envelope for me at the front desk with $100 bill in it. He wrote on the outside "Thanks so much. Enjoy your day." I tell ya, I wasn't expecting that whatsoever but what a positive bit of reinforcement that was. The moral of this story: Don't ever fall into the mode of thought that doing the right thing never pays off because that is just niahlism at it's worst. The truth is that we get many opportunities everyday to do the right thing, to extend ourselves through positivity and Love and it is always pays off!