Day 23: Digging a ditch by the road has taught me a valuable lesson about people's humanity as illustrated even by a little bird

Well, it seems that sometimes when you just want to help out and just do the best you can for someone or some thing like society or a road or people, it appears that they might not always want that help, which has come to pass to be my lesson for today.

So as you might have guessed due to my first sentence, my ditch-digging plan to save the town met some obstacles today. I was pleased that yesterday all was well with my endeavors, but today a woman, whom I recognize as one of the folks who was not interested in purchasing a cookie from my bake sale to raise money for a PI, came out of her house and implied that I should not be helping society like this. Well, I explained my case and she seemed a bit confused, so I explained it again a few more times, but louder this time, and she just got a more confused and angry look on her face and became a bit insistent on getting off what she claimed was her property, but I pointed out to her that it was probably government property on account of its being so close to the public road of which I was saving.

But after a few more words were exchanged I came to remember something someone told me once which was this: "Some people just don't like to be helped." And I knew at that point this woman was one of those people. So I just shook my head at her and maybe even had a tear because I was quite sorry for a woman like she, then I took my snow shovel and I went across the street to save someone else from the rain on the road because afterall, sometimes it's just not worth it to do a good deed if someone is going to really not want that good deed to be performed upon them or the road near them.

Well, the woman turned out to be quite a bad seed, as apparently her ideas spread to a few other folks who, in turn, decided that I shouldn't help their society, and what can a girl do if she is only trying to save a society by digging a ditch by the side of the road to prevent puddles in the road which are dangerous, but then she's ganged up on by society to stop doing her good work?

Well, my thoughts turned to others who have also been told not to help for their good deeds, like Abraham Lincoln, and the list of these people is just as long as can be, and while I don't think of myself as noble as those who have gone before me, it does make me feel comforted in that fact, which keeps me upbeat and not discouraged because it really just seems that I keep learning lessons in life and I can't be upset my ditch was halted when I learn such a lesson about humanity. Because really, even an injured bird will complain if you try to fix his broken wing, but it is still best for him to get it fixed because if you don't, it will be quite sore and not heal properly, and then how could that poor little bird fly away from captors and also fly to his loved ones with worms that he would mush up in his mouth and spit out for them to eat up very hungrily?

Love,

Orch