No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted

For the last thirty or more years- since my teenage years, I have more or less lived by the above motto; or at least tried to, since I am far from perfect. But in the way I treat colleagues, clients and friends, I try to aspire to this, and it has stood me in good stead, or I believe it has. Kindness and courtesy do payback.

Why am I blogging about it? Well, for some reason it came to me recently that my late mother told me this phrase, or maybe even said this was one she lived by: or, rather, that I wanted to ask my brother and father whether my recollection was true, so I did so today. Alas, neither has any recollection of this in terms of mum, so it is either something she said to me, or a false memory, of which I have several, perhaps many.

So, a moment ago, having seen dad earlier this evening and been told he has no recollection of it, I googled it, and was surprised to learn it was an actual phrase from Aesop's Fables. So for thirty plus years I have not known its source, and whilst I would doubt mum will have read Aesop (she might, as a child), she could of course have seen the quote somewhere.

I would still like to think it was mum's phrase, and still intend to make it my own.

Finally, for the avoidance of doubt, in the way only google searches can do, if in doubt, this phrase is about…kindness.

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