Sometimes, when we give something away, we end up getting much more back in return. That was the experience of this woman showed a stranger an act of kindness and the gratitude that was shown has gone viral.
It started when Carmen Mendez and her boyfriend were enjoying meals at a local restaurant. Carmen saw a homeless woman who was asking customers at the restaurant if she could eat their leftovers they were planning on throwing away.
“Not one person said yes, they all ignored her and threw it away, it broke my heart,” Mendez posted on Facebook. “I have been volunteering with the homeless now for many years… they don’t repulse me or make me sick to my stomach. I hold them all with so much love.”
Mendez told her boyfriend that she would give the homeless woman her leftovers.
“I looked for her as we were getting ready to leave and couldn’t find her,” she recalled. “I felt sad knowing all the rejection she had that night searching for a warm meal.”
Eventually, the homeless woman made her way around and asked Mendez for her leftovers. She gave her five fries and one chicken strip but she knew she had to do more.
“I felt like a horrible human being feeding her my leftover chicken strip… she deserved so much more… so I bought her a whole meal… she deserved to eat a hot meal,” Mendez said.
Mendez ordered the meal and asked a worker that the homeless woman not be removed from the restaurant. The meal was given to the surprised woman who then displayed genuine gratitude.
“That hug she gave me was like a hug I had never felt… those tears she shed were felt deep in my heart,” Mendez said. “I held her tight and let her let it out. I wasn’t repulsed by it. I just held her. And that is a moment I will never ever forget. So next time you judge a homeless person, think twice… not all of them are homeless because of a drug addiction or because they are lazy.”
Many people are praising her for this act of kindness, and it certainly teaches us all something we could do.
Via: America Now
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