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Do Opposites Attract ?


As has been the case on recent Sunday blogs, today I am highlighting an individual that deserves our recognition and respect. However, the difference today is that all we know is who was the beneficiary of this guy’s act of kindness … Olivia Binns-Jennings of Memphis, who tells the following story:

On the morning of Dec. 28, 2021, she pulled into her local Marathon gas station on Summer Avenue, in the Binghampton neighborhood near Midtown. There were two young men buying snacks and drinks in line ahead of her.

“We began a conversation, just having some good fun and laughter,” Olivia told The Epoch Times. “One of the young men offered to pay $20 for my gas as I was waiting for them to complete their purchase. I said, ‘Thank you but I have it.’ The young man insisted.”

As Olivia was pumping gas to her car, it occurred to her that she wanted others to know how a random act of kindness can go a “miraculously long way.”

“I’m merely trying to get a message out here that the media has been so focused on crime and stories about disarray,” she said. “We as a society are missing the most basic of kindnesses, especially from our younger generations.”

Olivia asked the stranger, a youth about the same age as her own son, if she could snap a photo with him and post it to Facebook.

“He agreed,” she said. “We had never met before and I have never seen him since, but I pray he knows he has touched so many people with this small gesture.”

To me this story is amazing, but more amazing is how different the two characters in this story are:

Olivia is a woman; the stranger is a man.

Olivia is short; the stranger is tall.

Olivia is plump; the stranger is thin.

Olivia is in her late fifties; the stranger in his young twenties.

Olivia has short gray hair; the stranger has long black hair.

Olivia is white; the stranger is black.

Perhaps opposites do attract.

2/27/22

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