As Google’s algorithm continues to drop us all into story after story of war, atrocity, and division, remembering that the world is also abundant with beauty tends to be far more of a chore than it ever should be. Today, that will not be the case.
For those of you not in the know, everything does, in fact, happen for a reason; the caveat to this is that those reasons usually don’t show themselves until months, even years, later, and those reasons rarely align with the pre-conceived machinations we have our head. In saying that, TikTok‘s @dopaqueen715 has apparently been one of karma’s finest disciples as of late, and the full-circle domino effect of her actions is something tangential to magnificent poetry.
In the video above, @dopaqueen715 explains how, as a morning person, she tends to take it upon herself to have a surplus of pep in every step she takes at her part-time job at Starbucks, where she works most mornings. The latest recipient of said pep was an unnamed woman who had the impression of a raincloud over her head, resulting in the barista turbo-pepping into the nth dimension in hopes of lifting this lady’s spirits.
The barista’s success in this endeavor was met with a note from the woman, who gave it to her manager to pass onto the barista. In the note was a lengthy, heartfelt message about the effect that the barista’s positivity had on her, along with $200 as a token of appreciation for her kindness. The woman, presumably, had no way of knowing that that $200 would go towards an urn that the barista couldn’t previously afford; one that was destined to hold the ashes of the barista’s recently deceased mother, whom the barista will now be able to spend Mother’s Day with.
Indeed, coincidence is a myth, and humanity is limitless. And sometimes, limitlessness is born in a fateful morning Starbucks run.
