Split Coast Creations

So I need to write some thing and it’s not to boast but to make a point. I’m in New York City for @garyvee private wine party along with @veefriends and I wanted to go to the Nintendo world store to buy my son a few things. The weather is really really bad and it’s a torrential downpour. There’s no easy way to get an Uber once you leave the Nintendo store at Rockefeller Center. So I walked down the street, found an under hang and tried to stop to order an Uber. In the meantime, a young girl came over to me who was foreign and didn’t speak much English, and she was standing with a woman who had to be close to 90 years old, very frail with a basket of belongings. She said the woman was trying to find the Vanderbilt YMCA but she was lost. Could I help her ? I looked at the woman and could tell that she was likely homeless. I said that I would help her so the other girl could leave and go to work. I told the woman I would get her an Uber even though it was a three minute walk to the YMCA because I did not want her to walk in the rain with all of her personal belongings in a basket as she was already soaking wet. She was very confused and she was not understanding what an Uber was. I’m sure she was afraid. I called an Uber that I thought would be big enough to fit her basket in and they arrived about 10 minutes later as we were standing in the rain and the basket would not fit in the car so I had to cancel that Uber and get an XL. We had to wait an additional 15 minutes in the rain for the Uber to arrive and she still was very confused about why we weren’t hailing a cab. When we finally got in the vehicle, the three minute trip, of course took 20 minutes because we had to go down the one-way streets to get back to the YMCA. In the car I learned from her that she’s from originally Finland, she married an American man that brought her to New York City, she had no children and confessed about how hard it is to live in New York City. Her husband had passed away. When she got into the vehicle. She began crying and when I thought about it, I wasn’t sure if she was crying because she was happy to be out of the rain or because she knew she needed to get in the car, but was afraid of what would happen once she got in there with a stranger. As we drove along, I asked her if she needed any money and she said she didn’t have any so I gave her $20 and told her to put it in her purse and zip it closed. When we got to the YMCA I had to pick her up and carry her out of the vehicle because it was so high off the ground, I helped her inside the YMCA and bid her farewell. I helped her because I would hope that if that were my mother or anybody else’s mother that someone would help them too. And I also realize that that was somebody’s daughter who they probably hoped would never have to live that way. So all I’m asking is for everybody to show kindness because it goes a really long way. I was in a big rush to get to a party I’d been invited to today and I chose to help her instead and it was super fulfilling because it’s just in my nature of what I do in my life to help other people when I can, so please - any little thing that you can find to do to help somebody whenever you can - just remember that it really matters.