Cashier Appreciation Quotes

The mailman delivered mail in the rain The cashier got yelled at on her birthday The doctor watched a person die The heroes we know about but don’t appreciate enough

Also today when you sit down to eat your meal, no matter where you are, try to think about the many people who have made the meal possible.  See if you can engage in this activity while you eat slowly.  Let appreciation well up from within you as your taste buds are activated.  Think of the people who built your car with all of its complex components that work together to provide transportation.  Or think of the bus driver or train engineers.  Think of those who laid the roads or rails.  Think of the cashier who stands on their feet all day long ringing up purchases.  Think of the truck driver who delivered the merchandise to the store.  Think of the packagers.  Think of the farm laborers who make the food possible.  Think of those in oil producing countries who provide their natural resources and labor.  The list is almost endless.  I can imagine that by the end of the meal you still have not thought of all the countless labors, big and small, that made that meal possible.  Don’t forget to include your own labors as well.

Up until the past couple of years, he’s never cared to notice. He’s observed, maybe, but never taken care to see the world with purpose. A sunset, for one, is a sunset, and moonrise is moonrise is moonrise; he knows with objective certainty that these are beautiful, but if the beauty does nothing then the knowing does equally nothing. He can appreciate them the way he can appreciate the existence of a fire escape, can take note of them the way he can take note of a rack of discounted flowers on the path to the cashier aisles, but they hold no place in his mind beyond that observation. Until there’s suddenly reason for them to. Until a sunset is suddenly a photo he can send to someone whose affection for it he longs to bathe in. Until a fire escape is a place to run away to for a small pocket of time. Until a discounted flower is a gift.