On my way to work today I ran into a group of elderly women who were on a charter bus tour.

The entrance that was closest to where they were dropped off didn’t have an elevator.  It had a long flight of stairs down.
I could have kept my pace like everyone else and hurried off to work but that little voice inside of me made me offer these adventurous independent elderly women a hand.

I asked them to leave their luggage at the top of the stairs, promising not to run off with their belongings, I then proceeded to carry them down two at a time.  In all I think it was about 5 trips.  During the process I started to think, what exercise would be similar to this?  Stairmaster and shoulder laterals!  Smiles, thank you’s and a “I will be thinking you for the rest of the day.”  All I could do was smile and think of my mother.  Hoping that my good deed for today will be returned to my mother for when she is in need of a helping hand.

The moral of my story?
Pay it forward.