Today I missed swim practice for the team I manage. It was a rookie move — which isn’t a nice thing to say about rookies, I suppose — but I am sick with a cold…I took cold medicine last night…it knocked me out…I didn’t hear my alarm …I woke up after sun up, a half-hour after practice ended. Oops.
The workout can go on without me. The main problem is that I pay the lifeguards so, if I know I won’t be there, I always arrange for someone else to pay them. Today, I hadn’t done that.
When inquiring around to find out how practice went and who the lifeguard was so I could pay them, I learned that a swimmer (I don’t yet know whom) paid the guard for me. I was very pleased to hear that. It shows that even if I’m not there, people will still step forward.
Evidence of a friendly universe: the person who steps into the gap.
Q