When your “cup runneth over,” you don’t question an opportunity to help others, which is exactly the thinking that inspired one Albuquerque family’s generosity.
Josette Duran, a mother from Albuquerque, New Mexico, became an inspiring example of kindness and compassion. For months, she packed an extra lunch for her son, Dylan, simply because he asked her to.
When Dylan, began asking for an extra lunch, she thought he was just more hungry than usual, until he explained what he was really doing: giving the additional sandwich and snacks to his classmate who couldn’t afford lunch.
“There’s a little boy at school. He only eats a fruit cup,” Dylan said. “[He has] no money. Can you make two lunches?” Without a doubt in her mind, Josette started packing double lunches complete with encouraging notes for both students.
Up until after a pretty long time, Josette never probed to learn more about Dylan’s classmate, and instead, gave the student privacy and left it up to her son to pass along the meals. “I didn’t ask, ‘What does he look like? Show me,'” she said. “I didn’t even care at that point.” She didn’t learn the child’s identity until the kid’s mom approached Josette to thank her for her generosity. She even offered Josette money to pay for the previous lunches, but Josette refused. “Thank you for feeding him. He’s doing better in school,” the mom said to Josette. Dylan is her son’s best friend at school, the mom added.
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If we look closely, children will always love and show kindness until they are taught not to. May we learn to nurture the kind hearts children are naturally born with. May we learn to pay forward every kind act, this is how we heal the world.