Impression

I can be easily impressed.  I know I can.  It really does not need to be something big and mind blowing though for sure that impresses me.  There is so much I could name from ck scrapers to city infrastructure to space things.  Then there is non man-made things.  Planets impress me.  Space does too.  Life is mind blowing.
There was a program on SBS recently about the space program and getting to the moon.   Looking at the computers that were used it amazes me they were able to do what they did.  Probably the lap top I am sitting in front of has more memory than most of them.
But what also impresses me is when Joe or Josephine No Name, does something unexpected and it has a positive affect on many.  It may be feeding lots of people or giving someone a lift.  Or it may be getting along side someone who needs help.  Not permanent help (though it can be) but help to see them through a difficult time.  Help that enables another to get on their feet.  Help that does not spruke solutions, but help that is the solution personified.
I need that.  What can look easy is made up of others assisting at the right time.  Others just doing what they do.  Not necessarily as some noble gesture that wins immediate accolades.  But something done in secret.  Something hidden.  Something only the receiver sees.  But something that makes a difference.
It seems many people almost deify their mums, but there is something I remember her doing that I reckon fits the category of unseen help.  She would walk to the hospital in the town she was.  She would visit and encourage people she saw.  The whole time she was crook and really should have been the one getting the help.  She did not complain.  She just did it.  She passed away before many of those she saw.  It was an act done in a small corner of the world.  Something unseen by most.  Something done not to promote herself, but to bring relief to seemingly forgotten people.
Many have done that sort of thing.
I remember visiting someone to do their lawn.  It was my aim that it was an unknown thing.  I deliberately told no one of it.  I spent a couple of hours doing what I had in mind.  In the middle of summer.  I did drink a fair bit of water.
It was done only to do something for someone who had other big things to deal with at the time.  I am not one who can do many complicated things, but I can do what I can do, and I will at times.  Others do the same for me.
I am easily impressed, and I reckon that is a good thing.