Peeper Problems

"It's amazing what you can see when you open your eyes." - Anonymous

Today was a wonderful day.
For once, nothing went wrong.
The sun shone.
It wasn't freezing cold - 61 degrees!
We sang spirituals in choir.
I made photo grams in the darkroom, which turned out great.
Spent some alone time with Ben (my brother) and laughed a lot.
Ate a blueberry bagel.

Yes, some days are void of bad stuff.
And for that, I thank God. After all that junk last week, smooth sailing is much appreciated.

And now for the kind deed of the day!

Whilst in the photo lab making my photo gram (a photo gram is when you expose an object on top of your photo paper in stead of a negative onto the photo paper - google image it), there were quite a few people doing the same thing, or exposing negatives for the assignment.
Now even though I just learned on Sunday how to do this stuff, a guy asked me for help.
I don't know why he chose me, but maybe he didn't - maybe He did :)
This guy was confused about how to do the photo gram, and thankfully I knew how to do the stuff he asked about. It was actually fun to help him, and reinforced the steps in my own mind. I could easily have said no, and shoved him in the direction of a lab assistant - but the assistant was busy helping the other students, and Someone urged me to help.
I hope that I was a kind and patient teacher!
Having done a good deed and successfully finished a project (and finally remembering the locker combination) , I was feeling pretty grand walking out of the lab.
Until I walked in on a live, video interview between Mr. Ruf, his daughter Sarah, and the video guy.
It wasn't really my fault though, because they were standing in the middle of the hallway by the doorway, so whomever was walking out of the door couldn't see what was happening until they walked into the shot.
They told me it was okay, and no big deal.
I hope they weren't lying to make me feel better.
Oh well.

I realized something else while in the darkroom, dealing with visual things and all: it really is amazing what you can see if you open your eyes. Everyone in the darkroom seemed to mind their own business, and know what they were doing. Even the guy who needed help. Taking time to help him, I realized that not all is ever as it seems.
Stepping back from the situation, a lot of other people may have need help, and not just with photo development. We all have our own personal struggles; every single person! But if we walk around blindly, we will never know what good we could have done for them.

I encourage you, my readers (if you are still there) to make it a point to look for things you can do for others. Make a conscious, sincere effort to pay more attention to people you come in contact with than your own struggles.

This quote summarizes my point exactly:
"Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be the most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!" - William Arthur Ward