Steemit Engagement Challenge s9-w3: "kindness that changed my life"

Good day once again to everyone, my name is oluwatimileyin and I welcome you to the season 9 of the engagement challenge.

I welcome you to my participation in the week 3 of the Engagement contest with the title: "kindness that changed my life".

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What was the act of kindness that impacted your life? Describe the situation.

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As a human being, we all have had our own experiences that change our perspection about how we view things and people around us. These sort of experience impact our lives and make us learn new things about humanity.

The such act of kindness that impacted my life about human perspective happened to me during the COVID-19 when I lost my boss's money due to a scam. The amount of money that was lost was a sum #140,000 Naira which is equivalent to 1,000 Steem today, the amount was so much significant sum of money for me that even my 5 months salary can't cover it.

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When this incident happened,I was scared and I didn't know how to relate the news to my boss. However, what happened next changed my perspective forever, Instead of her being angry or requesting me to pay back the money, my boss decided to help me out to get the money back. She and I made an attempt to report to police and went to complain to bank to retrieve the money, and she even paid me for my transportation to and fro to their main branch in Lagos island.

The inspiring things about the incident is that, despite that the attempt to retrieve the money failed, She still didn't even judge me or make me feel bad for the mistake that I had made. Instead, she showed me kindness in return, great understanding, and sympathize with me because she knows I feel so bad for the incident, this made all the difference in the world to me and change my perspective on how I think about people generally.

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What were the emotions you were feeling at that time?

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The emotions I felt at the time I told her the incident and the response I got was an endless joy for me, I had been very scared up until the moment she came to work, but seeing her response totally left me in shock and felt like I was in a dream.

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The feeling was like one of those rare moments when you realize that there are still good people in this world. I had never experienced a kindness like that before, and it sort of touched me deeply. The incident made me realize that life is not always about the money. Sometimes, it's the little things that matters, like showing compassion and empathy to one another and it was a great feeling I could never forget.

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How did that act impact you? (Financially, emotionally, etc.)

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The act of kindness impacted me in several ways, first of all, it impacts me emotionally. Emotionally in a way that it gave me a new sense of hope in human being, it was then I realized that even in the midst of a difficult situation, there is always that one person who is willing to help and others in every way possible.

Financially, it also helped me in a way that I don't have to pay the money back which would have been a great task for me, as the money was so huge that my salaries can't even pay back on time, I was just so Happy to have come across such kindness at the time.

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What are the lessons you learned from that incident? Did it change your perspective on kindness and the way you treat others?

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Yes, I learned a lot of lesson I learned from the incident.

Firstly, I learned the importancy of showing kindness and sympathy to one another, especially when they are in a difficult situations, it was then I learned that everything is not always about the money, but it's about we treat each other, how we treat people below us, do we make them feel bad or not for making mistakes?

And Lastly, I also learned that there is always hope somewhere, I had already given up that day, but somewhere somehow , a hope came for me in the darkest hour of the day.

Did it change your perspective on kindness and the way you treat others?

Yes, for sure, that incident changed my thinking perspective and the way I treat others as well. Ever since then, I have Learn the importancy of showing kindness to others, I also learn that it is the little things that counts more, and I have begin to make effort to be more kind to others around me as well.

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Did you manage to pass it forward by showing kindness to others? How?

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As for passing the same kindness forward to others, I have always tried in my best possible way to show kindness to others as well in my own little way.

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Whether it's by putting a smile on someone's face,or by saying a kind word to them, or any small act of generosity also, I believe that every little things counts to people around us, the world is contagious enough, we can only help by being kind to one another.

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Here is where I pen down my entry to this contest, so therefore , I would use this moment to invite @yakspeace, @Lhorgic, and @jueco to participate in this contest as well.