BE KIND always, in all ways.

Today's my second day as a 3rd yr med student. Somehow, a bit tiring because everyday is whole day class but what I'm gonna write about is not pertaining to what happened to one of my class but a cute story that happened while I was having my lunch. Here in Vigan, we have a small sari-sari store, we usually sell breakfast and lunch and there's this medyo lolo with down syndrome (maybe around late 30's to 40s age) whose part of his routine is to have some snacks here at our house. He would always buy pepsi and sometimes some meryenda. I would sometimes see him roaming around asking for money (but my lola's friend mentioned before that's somehow they're not really poor) and what he's doing is just really part of his "routine." I don't know, I don't really have any idea about what happens in his life but now I'm curious. So going back, everytime I have the chance to see him, I try to have small conversations with him like did he already eat, can you share me what you're eating and would sometimes offer him free biscuits. And most of the time, he doesn't want to accept free foods, its always a must for him to pay. Everyone's used to what he orders already. And for the past two days, it made me happy that he was accepting biscuits from me but when someone is watching like for example my lola, he would not accept it. And awhile ago, I was conversing with him, asking him to have a sit outside of our store while having meryenda, and said we share the softdrink while I was also having my lunch. It was a slight joke. And then when I went back eating, he ordered another pepsi so my lola asked to me to get it for him, and then he refused to received it and just pointed at me and smile and it made me happy. It was a tiring day supposedly but this made me happy. Kindness is truly a gift everyone can afford to share. Posted this to remind myself to stay kind in all ways and always.