You never know when your actions, deliberate or otherwise, would touch others' lives in a warm and special way. Those couple of messages are really kind, seemingly much kinder in their appreciation of what I have 'given' than I feel justified. But when one good deed begets another, leaving both parties feeling better about themselves and those around, even the dreary (but typical), cold, rainy weather outside becomes more romantic and nostalgic than depressing.

I won't say that I am an idealist by nature, least I don't particularly feel that way, but I think I'm learning to be more hopeful.