Today was an awesome day, I got up and was feeling lazy to go for my weekend run. Then something struck me and I put on my running gear and started for my favorite run from my home to Redondo Beach pier in Torrance, California, USA.
I normally take a pit spot when I reach the pier for few minutes to regain my breath and drink water.
Today was something special, very good waves and then while I was walking on the pier I see a bunch of folks arrived for fishing. I noticed that it was fisherman's paradise day today, almost everyone had a nice catch.
I observed quite a few things and that made me think even harder about the perception of generosity.
I saw a fisherman, who got 5 fish in his catch, he gave 2 of his catch to the seagulls and the crane standing there. I have never seen fisherman giving the catch like this till now in all my visits to Redondo pier, its the other way round then these birds come to spy on the fish in the buckets and steal something from it.
Then I see another gentleman walking there offering Cheetos to everyone standing in that area !!
A few minutes later I hear another person who came for fishing, saying "Good enough for me, one dinner" and waved everyone a goodbye.
I was thinking wow !! whats going on..am I in wonderland.
The story doesn't end here...as the climate was good and I was having a good time, for some strange reason I thought of staying a bit longer than usual.
There were many folks who got "FullHouse", a new term I heard on the pier, anyone getting a fish caught in all 6 of the fishing rod hooks, calls it a FullHouse.
Now comes the masterstroke event, the same fisherman ( generous one) come in the corner area with a plastic bag , where I was standing with other folks catching fish, asks "Who is the owner of this bag ( he meant the ice cooler) lying on the pavement "?
People pointed to the owner of it and he asked I have an extra catch today, where should I put it. As that ice cooler was already filled with catching fish, the owner asked to drop in the cardboard box :)
Everyone started laughing at the initial chuckle :) :)
He said, I am done, you guys carry one ..I have extra catch take it...
Now I was thinking ...what a generosity !!
If you observe in daily life, you can see this act of generosity by even some of the simple living people like the fisherman's in this case, btw they were not the so-called hi-fi people.
Then another thought came to my mind, was it because it was a good day for fishing and everyone was getting a good catch ..or generosity comes when you are full stomach !!
I still don't know the answers, however, I'd say I enjoyed my 30-40 mins with that group of people, laughing aloud on many FullHouses and chatting on their catches of the day.
A day well spent !!
Beginner RealStoryTeller.
I normally take a pit spot when I reach the pier for few minutes to regain my breath and drink water.
Today was something special, very good waves and then while I was walking on the pier I see a bunch of folks arrived for fishing. I noticed that it was fisherman's paradise day today, almost everyone had a nice catch.
I observed quite a few things and that made me think even harder about the perception of generosity.
I saw a fisherman, who got 5 fish in his catch, he gave 2 of his catch to the seagulls and the crane standing there. I have never seen fisherman giving the catch like this till now in all my visits to Redondo pier, its the other way round then these birds come to spy on the fish in the buckets and steal something from it.
Then I see another gentleman walking there offering Cheetos to everyone standing in that area !!
A few minutes later I hear another person who came for fishing, saying "Good enough for me, one dinner" and waved everyone a goodbye.
I was thinking wow !! whats going on..am I in wonderland.
The story doesn't end here...as the climate was good and I was having a good time, for some strange reason I thought of staying a bit longer than usual.
There were many folks who got "FullHouse", a new term I heard on the pier, anyone getting a fish caught in all 6 of the fishing rod hooks, calls it a FullHouse.
Now comes the masterstroke event, the same fisherman ( generous one) come in the corner area with a plastic bag , where I was standing with other folks catching fish, asks "Who is the owner of this bag ( he meant the ice cooler) lying on the pavement "?
People pointed to the owner of it and he asked I have an extra catch today, where should I put it. As that ice cooler was already filled with catching fish, the owner asked to drop in the cardboard box :)
Everyone started laughing at the initial chuckle :) :)
He said, I am done, you guys carry one ..I have extra catch take it...
Now I was thinking ...what a generosity !!
If you observe in daily life, you can see this act of generosity by even some of the simple living people like the fisherman's in this case, btw they were not the so-called hi-fi people.
Then another thought came to my mind, was it because it was a good day for fishing and everyone was getting a good catch ..or generosity comes when you are full stomach !!
I still don't know the answers, however, I'd say I enjoyed my 30-40 mins with that group of people, laughing aloud on many FullHouses and chatting on their catches of the day.
A day well spent !!
Beginner RealStoryTeller.
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