A barista wrote “you've got this” on the cup of a woman crying quietly by the window.
Ripple · Toronto → Manila → Bogotá
OverviewA barista wrote “you've got this” on the cup of a woman crying quietly by the window.
For a customer having a bad morning.
She laughed. She came back the next day to thank him.
An imagined example. Real deeds are told by the people who saw them or did them.
I keep a whiteboard by the door of my jeepney in Quezon City: free ride if today is hard. I read about the barista in Toronto.
For anyone having a bad day.
Nobody abuses it. Most people pay double the next day.
An imagined example. Real deeds are told by the people who saw them or did them.
→ led to a deed in Bogotá
I write one line on every cup for the night-shift nurses from the clinic next door.
For the nurses at Clínica del Country.
Escribo una frase en cada vaso para las enfermeras del turno de noche de la clínica de al lado.
One of them keeps the cups. She has a shelf of them.
An imagined example. Real deeds are told by the people who saw them or did them.
This is the latest deed on this line, for now.
This line is imagined. The first real one could be yours.
Examples show how a deed is told and how it travels. Nothing real grows from them. If you saw a stranger do something good, tell it, and a real ripple begins.
Told in your own language, with your English rendering.