giving up your seat

I woke up late(again:)) this morning and took BART instead of walking to casual carpool. Here's another link to casual carpool http://www.sfride.com/. I'll have to share stories about casual carpool another time. I love casual carpool! Good exercise and it saves me significant amount of money. I just have to get up earlier. It's the goal I set every night, but it never seems to work in the morning:(.

This morning on BART, it was crowded as usual. I saw a pregnant woman get on the train. I'm guessing she was at least 8 or 8.5 months pregnant. Actually, I'm not good at guessing how many months a woman is in her gestation period, but she was obviously pregnant, so I gave up my seat. She was really grateful and she said I was unique. I didn't know what to say, so I chuckled uncomfortably. I felt sad and disturbed to hear that. I guess we don't give up our seats so easily anymore. Everything is mine, mine, mine. I'm guilty of that as well. I do that when I'm driving. Well, good karma returned. Someone got up and left a seat open, this guy next to me was much closer to the seat, so I didn't bother to fight for the open seat, so I kept reading my magazine. The guy tapped me and offered the seat to me instead of jumping at the chance to sit down. I was thankful. Lesson reminder, be kind and courteous even if kindness will not be returned immediately or returned at all. Be kind for the sake of being kind.