My in-laws stayed at our house to watch our son while we were at the hospital awaiting the birth of our second child.
When I got home, I noticed that my father-in-law had fixed my hairbrush which had broken in half a few days before I left.
He never said a thing about it. He just noticed the broken brush on the countertop and took it to his workshop to piece it back together, stronger than ever.
That was 5 years ago, but even now when I pick up that hairbrush and see that gleaming silver screw I think about my father in law. I think about the moment he must of saw my brush on the counter and decided to help me simply because he could.
It’s the little things – unexpected, low cost, and done when no one is looking – that make the best gifts of all.
In a social media world where if you don’t post it on social, it never really happened… I am certain that it’s the things we don’t post on social, the gestures we make when our phones are off, that really change the world.
Leave a Reply