It doesn’t cost much to be a decent human being. Maybe an hour of your time here, or $5 there, but at the end of it all, being kind to others doesn’t cost a thing, but never fails to be rewarding.
Unfortunately in our humanness, we often pass up the opportunity to help someone and focus our attention instead on the inconvenience that they causing.
There’s no greater example of this than encounters with strangers on an airplane—something that Kesha Bernard got to experience herself this week.
The mother of two was on vacation away from her kids, yet still wound up flying with a toddler on her lap.
Kesha Bernard
She says it’s because raising kids takes a village, and having a three- and four-year-old of her own, Kesha was happy to lend a hand.
As the photographer detailed in her viral Facebook post, however, not everyone on the plane was so understanding.
In what sounds like a sick social experiment—trap 100+ people in an enclosed metal structure thousands of feet above ground for a few hours and see who survives—Kesha details how her Alaskan Airlines flight got delayed at the gate for weight checks.
That’s when the worst thing imaginable happened: a baby started crying.
Nothing screams survival of the frequent flyers like an unhappy kid.
Unfortunately it’s the way people responded to the mother of the crying baby that had Kesha, and the rest of the Internet, fuming.