A Sad Encounter And A Reality In Today’s World

Understanding That Leadership Begins In The Small Things

I was at the Mall today and something happened that made me extremely sad.

I went about picking up some items for my spouse, a normal trip to the mall for me.

As I was in the process of leaving, I saw a young girl and her father coming into the building, and I sped up just a tiny bit so that I could hold the door open for them.

I came through and stood with the door open for them, waiting for “maybe” 2 seconds for them to make their way.

The father looked up from his daughter to see me and said, “Oh! Thank you!” in the most legitimately Surprised tone I have heard from a person in some time.

I was puzzled by his Surprise.

Could it be that no one has held the door open for this man and his child for so long, possibly ever, for him to react like that?

Then it hit me.

It is quite possible that the Suprise was True and THAT Legitimate.

We live in a world filled with “Consumers”.

So often people are completely Focused only on themselves.