Today, I was babysitting the coolest kids in the world. Seriously...this family is AWESOME! I have babysat for them for almost 2 years now and they are all fantastic!! Such a sweet family. Anyways, we went to see the "African Cats" movie (it's an earth day special). While we were waiting in line to get drinks, a gentleman was leaving the theater after seeing his movie, and he gave us his HUGE tub of empty popcorn. (It gets free refills!) So all we had to do was hand it to the cashier and get free popcorn! Such a sweet thought. I'm sure he didn't know that he would make my day so easily!
And since I didn't write yesterday, I figured I would double up today. I was planning on limiting this project to humans, but watching the movie today inspired me. It just followed around various African cats (imagine that!) and showed different aspects of their daily life. It mainly focused on a family of lions and a family of cheetahs. It really was a fabulous movie...I highly recommend it! Anyways, the mother cheetah was a single mother, and was out hunting while the five newborn cubs were left alone. Another cheetah came up and started sneaking up on them, getting ready to pounce on the defenseless babies. Just then, and elephant came up and started stomping around the cheetah. The elephant chased him off and saved the cubs while their mother was away getting them food! I was shocked at the kindness and bravery of the elephant. He had no reason to help the poor cubs, but he did anyways. Although this is really touching (yes, I'm a sap!), I can't help but wonder why humans can't seem to do the same thing. Why can't we all help those in need, even if we don't know them? If an animal knows that it's the right thing to do, shouldn't we?