Rambling Zone

A friend told me about her excess baggage experience. On the way back home, at the check in counter, she found that her luggage was overweight. According to the international procedure, baggage’s allowed up to 32 kg, while her baggage was 36 kg. It ain’t no secret that excess baggage could be so extremely expensive. It was so not cool to pay around GBP1,000 for that extra weight, was it..? Moreover, she didn’t have enough money that moment.. She was worried about that.., so she could only pray… and hoped that her mastercard wont be rejected…
Unexpectedly, a lady came to her and told her where she could get cheaper overweight baggage service.. Instead of GBP1,000 she needed only to pay GBP300.. She felt a bit relieve.. Although it wasn’t a small amount either (multiply by Rp.19,000 :P), it was, indeed, cheaper..
After that, the airlines officer came and told her that the flight was delayed for 6 hours. Therefore, the airlines gave GBP600 to compensate their passengers..
Now do the math…
Yep… Instead of losing GBP1,000 or GBP300, my friend gained GBP300..
Yea, exclusive the time wasted to wait the next flight.. But that’s alright I guess.. :P

She asked me why..? Why those things had happened to her…
I can only say, don’t ask why darl.. It’s a gift.. You’re been blessed.. So thank God for that… :)

Dunno…, nice things may come surprisingly from unexpected people (people we don’t know before, for example).. For instance, I ever been in similar situation above.. (and no kidding I’ve got 40 kg baggage at that time :P).. An airport officer made my friend, who checked in 5 minutes before me, to redo her baggage, made sure it wasn’t over 32 kg or charged her for the excess baggage.. Thank God the officer just let me passed her, with my 40 kg baggage.. I remembered, one time I could across Pulau Seribu by boat free of charge, while a friend, that supposedly catch me up, needed to pay a quite substantial amount of money.. Or one day, an old stranger man, out of the blue, gave me barney stuff animal… Or a younger stranger man gave me tweeties (yep, 2 tweety stuff animals :P) that I was looking forward to get from that vending machine (never succeed until now :P).. Or one day when I lost my wallet and many other nice things surprisingly came..

Thank God I often experienced those things…
I’m such a lucky girl I guess..
Or… Maybe…, it’s true…
Nice things are happened to the nice people… hehe.. (my overly quoted sayings :P)

Anyway… While nice things may come surprisingly from unexpected people..., people we expected to be nice (because we have been so nice to them, for example), may not do things we thought..
Well… we cannot force anybody to repay our good deed.. right..?
Since expecting people will do the same like we do will only leave the pain when they don’t…, being nice should be accompanied by sincerity..
Just be nice because we want to.. (or in the Name of God for the highest level ^_^)
Maybe people we expected to be nice.., didn’t exactly repay our sincere gestures…
But, from nowhere, who knows..? Something nicer could come…

It won’t harm us for being nice…, so why don’t we..??




My friend’s story have been shortened, published without permission (by the time this entry was posted.. :P)