24/11/2025
A small act…a beautiful return 🫶
Life has a beautiful way of placing small stories on our path—moments that seem simple or inconvenient at first, yet unfold into something far more meaningful.
Recently, while scrolling through social media, I came across a woman’s post. She had just lost her job and was offering homemade baked goods to earn enough to keep going… and to make sure her son could still celebrate his birthday. Her story moved me. There wasn’t much on her menu, but that didn’t matter. I chose pizza bases and muffins—easy, straightforward. My intention was simple: I just wanted to help.
Only later did I realise the pickup point was in Msida, completely out of my way. I considered sending a Bolt, and my partner naturally questioned my thinking. “Why pizza bases… when we only ever order pizza because we’re too tired to cook?” he asked. His point was valid, but all I could say was the truth:
“I just wanted to help.”
He laughed and said, “dejjem tivvinta xi wahda,” and we moved on with our day.
But yesterday, something small and lovely happened.
We remembered the pizza bases.
What could have easily been forgotten or dismissed transformed into a beautiful opportunity. We set up toppings, gathered the kids, and let them decorate their own little pizzas. Their excitement, their creativity, their proud little faces as they shaped their own food—suddenly, those random pizza bases became the centre of a joyful family moment.
And it hit me right then:
In choosing to help someone else, life had quietly given something back to me too.
Not as money, not as recognition, but as a memory.
A simple, heartwarming moment with my children that might have otherwise never happened.
This is the magic of giving.
We often think we are extending kindness outward—but kindness has a way of circling back. It returns softly, unexpectedly, in the form of joy, connection, lessons, or even a new perspective. It reminds us that giving is not a loss of energy; it is an exchange. A flow.
When we act from compassion, we open a doorway.
We release goodness into the universe—and the universe, in its quiet wisdom, always finds a way to return that goodness to us. Not always immediately. Not always in the way we expect.
But always in the way we need.
So help, even when it seems inconvenient.
Help, even if others don’t fully understand your reasoning.
Help, because kindness is a force that never disappears—it multiplies.
And sometimes, it comes back to you as a table full of toppings, two excited little helpers, and pizzas made with laughter and love.
Much love
Anabel xx
