One of the single most satisfying moments in my life was when a beautiful young thing hit on me while she was with her current boyfriend and I turned her down saying “Aren’t you here with someone?” Her response was along the lines of how he was nothing.
The guy looked like he knew it was over at that point, and left without her soon after and she looked pissed at HIM for leaving her. So she came back to me and said she was single now and I said and so I said I would never stick around to have it happen to me.
The twinge of kicking myself in the butt for missing an opportunity to have sex with a beautiful was far surpassed by the satisfaction of doing the right thing and recognizing a bad situation in advance.
There is an old saying- Virtue is it’s own reward. It is true and has served me well over the years.
I once went to get gas in my car and when I got home I found the $5 I had to pay for it was still in my pocket- I was not gleeful that I scammed $5 of gas, I was horrified- so I went back and gave it to the girl- who cried because her boss screamed at her that he was going to take it out of her pay and she had kids.. etc.
You don’t get the kind of satisfaction doing many things as you get from doing good.
Wow, two great recollections! Thank you for sharing those. We sometimes think that when we do something right or good, that it is of no importance. Those incidents show otherwise.
There’s an applicable passage in the Bible that says, “Let us not grow weary in doing good.” Thanks for showing how important that is!
One day I used the self-checkout at the grocery store and forgot to pay. When I went back, they had already written off the twenty or so dollars in food, and I had to rescan everything to pay. But I slept well that night knowing I did the right thing.
You didn't scam it. It was an honest mistake.
If you had scammed it, you wouldn't have have the conscience to do the right thing and go back and pay for it.