Secret Santa Angel's - December 10, 2009 Daily Dose of Happiness

This wonderfully heart warming story popped up on my yahoo front page today about a group of Secret Santa's in cities nationwide that hand out their own money to unsuspecting, yet deserving people during the month of December. Let me repeat that...they hand out THEIR OWN MONEY. I was sitting in my shop this afternoon as I read this story, literally sobbing and praying for the first time in the short history of my business that no one came through my door.

Spend any sort of time with me and I'm bound to touch on my massive disappointment in the path of humans these days. It seems like we spend so much time worrying about ourselves, our problems, our issues, that we've lost all semblance of common courtesy. When did people stop saying thank you, holding a door open, or doing something so incredibly simple, like flipping a turn signal on? And when did all of this become ok?

These Secret Santa's are the complete antithesis of all of that. This year alone, they will give out a combined $250,000 to $300,000 to complete and total strangers. This goes completely beyond turning your blinker on. All these people ask for is that recipients pay their good fortune forward - not necessarily in the form of money, it can be something as simple as a hug.

Maybe this holiday season we can all attempt to stop focusing so much on our own problems in order to see the bigger picture. And maybe we'll be able to bring each other some happiness along the way.