20 - Caroline's story of an opportunity to help resulting in the perfect reciprocation.

​When Caroline's husband had to endure an operation in the middle of their sailing trip she was left on her own, however she found the opportunity to do a good turn for a fellow holiday maker which resulted in the ideal  reciprocation. Read on for the full story. 

Dear Polly,

I am back in A&E as John is in quite considerable pain.  Your ‘Find my Happy’ fell out of my purse, so I thought it opportune to share this:

On Monday, with John in hospital and an evening on my own, I thought I would enjoy a cup of tea at the end of the pontoon and watch the nightly display of the sunset.  This night, as the great golden orb sank in to the sea, dramatic luminescent shafts sluiced through the already darkened clouds, which in turn seem to delineate the orange glow on the horizon from the delicate purple that heralded a starry night.

On the boat nearby a solitary figure was working on repairing a winch.  I asked how it was going and he said he was stumped as he would have to buy a new drill bit.  I was able to nip back to our boat and give him just the tool he needed.

Graeme gratefully returned the bit saying that one good deed always deserves another: as he was heading back to Australia the next day he wanted to give me a large collection of films and books.  How was he to know that, with John having to convalesce for at least two weeks, that was just what we needed!

It set me thinking:  with a cloudless sky the sunset is nice but never memorable - it needs clouds to make it interesting. There may be clouds in our lives, but a few clouds make for a spectacular sunset.

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