UT anime club<\/a> to pick something up, and while there, I didn’t say “hi” to Thai, the president of the anime club, even though I passed right by him.\u00c2\u00a0 This was my shyness hard at work.\u00c2\u00a0 Thai is a good guy and I’ve always liked him, but since we are just passing acquaintances, I was too shy to say anything.<\/p>\nI felt terrible about that.\u00c2\u00a0 I felt rude and mean, so when I got home, I wrote him an email apologizing for being rude and explaining that it was just because I am quite shy.\u00c2\u00a0 I never heard anything back, so I assumed that Thai either didn’t remember me or just brushed over the email without concern.<\/p>\n
Well, he wrote back this morning, apologizing for being so very late with his reply.\u00c2\u00a0 He told me not to worry about it.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a lovely and kind email and made me happy.<\/p>\n
It also made me realize that we don’t know all the ripples we send out into the world.\u00c2\u00a0 When we say a kind word or apologize for something we did or do something nice for someone, we don’t always receive any kind of acknowledgement for our act.\u00c2\u00a0 That doesn’t mean that it wasn’t appreciated or that it didn’t make the\u00c2\u00a0person feel happy.\u00c2\u00a0 Just because Thai didn’t\u00c2\u00a0write back,\u00c2\u00a0that didn’t mean that he didn’t appreciate the apology and email.<\/p>\n
And when I realized this — when\u00c2\u00a0I realized that ripples I send out into the world can make people smile or feel a little less burdened in the day\u00c2\u00a0even though I’m unaware of it — it made me really happy.<\/p>\n
So here’s to kindness and shyness and all the\u00c2\u00a0happy ripples\u00c2\u00a0that you can create in this life.<\/p>\n
And thanks, Thai, for the lovely email and for the lovely lesson in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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