Are you giving away cookie dough?

I often hear, "I shouldn't allow one person to ruin my day." I know that I am a person that usually allows one person to sully what could have been quite possibly a great day, but I like to believe that the exact opposite is also true and allows for one person to do quite the opposite.

Most recently, I was rushing to the office for a meeting, which means I was also rushing to find a place to park. Unfortunately, my fail-safe parking spot was blocked by a large truck that morning, which happened to be driven by the mailmain. Stupid of me to think that I could honk "nicely" (nicely meaning short and only once) and wave to ask him to move. He proceeded to near my car and yell at me and ask me where he was supposed to park since there were "other cars blocking where he parked". Excuse me mr. mailman. I was unaware that you had a designated parking spot. However, not wanting to cause trouble, I said forget it, and though he was blocking a driveway, I went to find another spot. This parking problem began a snowball effect of lateness and frustration with all of my appointments that day, leading up to my lunch meeting.

However, when arriving to that lunch meeting, I was pleasantly surprised to receive a small ball of cookie dough at the end of our meeting, as the person I met with had realized what a day I had thus far, and knowing I was an addict, sorted through the early shipments of boxes in the kitchen, to get me the one sole piece of sunshine that I needed to turn around my day.

For those of you who may be wondering how one piece of cookie dough can turn around your day, you must not be a sugar addict like me. Or you may not be open to seeing what may seem like trivial or inconsequential acts for what they truly are, something that can completely alter your day. Which made me think...

Am I handing out cookie dough?

It is quiet similar to opening the door for the person behind you, or the concept of paying it forward, but somehow handing out cookie dough has such a better ring to it. So again I ask myself as well as you, the reader, are you handing out cookie dough? What small act of kindness can you do today to make someone's day better, or maybe even better than it already is. Sometimes it's very easy to go through the day in our own worlds, not really relating to the number of strangers we pass in one day, just in the hallway of the office or lunch room. But what would it take to actually see these people, and perhaps "give away a piece of cookie dough" to them? Maybe it's as simple as having candy on your desk...or perhaps not blocking a driveway. But I might be pushing it there...