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 It was a great end of the work day. My colleague and I had just completed what seemed to be an everlasting day of correcting examination scripts.  Thereafter, we  welcomed the opportunity to go to the supermarket to purchase a few items. Going through the aisles was most therapeutic. We collected our items and headed to the counter to pay. There were no long lines to overcome.

Who would not welcome icing on a cake? Icing that is well made makes the cake most pleasing to the eyes.  Well, we were in for our icing on the cake when we learned that we could obtain a free shopping bag while we were there. The news launched us into a fit of trying to meet the conditions to qualify for a bag. Anything legal for that bag. Buy more items? Combine our items? Ask the customer ahead for one of his bags? Negotiate with the cashier? We resorted to negotiating with the cashier. However, if we landed one bag how would we share it? 


When the customer ahead had cashed his items we tried our luck at convincing him to gift us one of his bags. Unfortunately, he refused.  With our hopes dashed against a rock, we went ahead cashing our items. We succumbed to the fact that we just did not qualify for a bag because our items did not total to the amount needed. While doing so we heard someone from behind asking “is this yours?” Turning around we realized it was my colleague’s work bag with her valuables inside.


How could she have done that? In the quest of obtaining a shopping bag which we could have purchased at a later time for less than $5.00 we had forgotten all about my colleague’s bag which was a lot more valuable than the shopping bag. She had left her bag at the end of the counter where anyone behind us could have stolen it. 

Immediately, I picked up the lessons from that event:

  • Be content with what you have

  • Be alert and conscious about your environment

  • There are still honest people in the world
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  1. ChrissieDecember 7, 2020 at 3:36 PM

    Aaahhh. Lovely lesson in life. It is a life journey and a level of self actualization which many of us never get to or never try to get to. Gratitude makes everything work in the end.
    There is nothing wrong with hard work and setting goals but at every step we need to be thankful for where we are.

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