I Have Changed

A partial reprise of my story from

May 22nd, 2015

of my post called 

I Haven't Changed A Bit

It's only a partial because this is the story I want to tell.

*****

Today,
I went to recycle my plastic bottles

and cans because I needed the extra money.

Out of the whopping $35.00 I received,
I immediately went to put $25.00 worth of gas into my car.
While I was at the gas station
I saw these two young guys pushing their car,
uphill,
towards the gas pumps.

Of course,
I helped push.

Once,
the car was next to the pump,
the youngest of the two asked if I had any spare change to give them.

I immediately thought to myself,

"Well you shouldn't have gone to the casino."

Plus,

this is really hard to confess,

I was judging them because they were Black.

I told him I was broke
and he got into their car.

While I pumped my gas I noticed nobody came out of their car to pump gas in theirs.

I thought about it,

then started feeling guilty about my profiling the two  
  and decided,
"What does it hurt to give up five bucks."

I knocked on the front passenger's window
and the young guy opened his door.
  There I saw this older fellow sitting in the driver's seat with an oxygen tank next to him.
He was being helped by an oxygen machine to function in life.

I gave them the five bucks,
they all shook my hand,
asked me my name and mailing address,

saying they would mail me a check for the five dollars. 

I told them,
it was the way I was brought up
and that they should pass it on.
If they see someone in need,
they should help them out.

They promised me they would

and the older gentleman said to me

"God will bless you for this."

This is,

I Work On Being Woke Everyday of My Life

And Hopefully Someday I Will Be Blessed For It When I Get There
Jim Hauenstein

And

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”
- Sylvia Plath-

 

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

 

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I did update the original story.

This version is the truth.

And I still work on being Woke everyday!