I'd like this day of mine to be a generous one. When the day is over some hours from now, I'd like to look back on it and be able to think about times when I was generous to someone else. Of course, if that's how I want the day to end, then it's important that I make a conscious effort to be generous for the next fourteen hours or so, isn't it? I'm going to have a lot of opportunities to be generous, by sharing whatever I have, by sharing compliments and encouragement, even possibly by overlooking some fault or mistake of another person and fixing a problem myself. At my school, sometimes being generous concerns picking up some trash in the cafeteria so that the janitor doesn't have to do so, and I make his job just a bit easier. Of course, if I do so, I don't want to tell him that I did, for then my action is less about being generous and more about wanting thanks for my "generous" action. I can be generous with my time by listening to someone who seems to need to talk--even if I had something to say that I thought was very important. When all is said and done, of course, my listening is almost always more generous than my talking. So can I do it? Can I make this a generous day? I certainly hope so, and now that I'm thinking about it, perhaps it will be easier for me to do so. Wish me luck!
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