Light the Way

Today, walking out of the school, I looked down and saw a glow stick. I picked it up, asked around if anyone dropped it. No one had. I carried it out of the building and was walking down the path that would lead me to our neighborhood when I saw a soft patch of mud. I knelt down and wedged the glow stick into the mud. Why I did this, I don't know. It was an impulse, a random one. But I walked on my way afterward not looking or thinking back.

Why is this anecdote important or relevant? It's not really. But it got me thinking about how that random act of randomness is the way that life goes on. Someone finds something and they put it somewhere maybe for someone else to find, or to help someone else with their journey(e.g. lighting the way for their evening walk). Maybe if I go to that same path tonight, the glow stick will be lit and lighting the path. Maybe it will be gone, into someone else's possession. Who knows? But the first step to making that glow stick light ways and travel around, is to pick it up.