SheJumps co-founder Lynsey Dyer is sending out a "call to action." Tell us a story about your appreciation for the outdoors and how you passed it on. Send stories to vanessa@shejumps.org. Here is associate editor Leah Fielding's story:

Although my story doesn't necessarily relate to the "outdoors," it does, however, relate to appreciating simple random acts of kindness. 

I work as a business associate/assistant/advertising/media/marketing coordinator to a busy Boulder, CO restaurant owner. Phew! Sometimes I'm not even sure exactly what I am supposed to be doing day-to-day with a job title like that. My story started late the day, it was a Friday and people were starting to trickle into the restaurant for dinner, but we still needed some new menus laminated. So, of course, I hopped in my car and drove to the local FedEx Office (formerly Kinkos). Luckily, Fedex Office is opened until 11 p.m. nationwide, so I had no problem getting two copies of our dinner menu laminated. It didn't take particularly long, I paid for the lamination with my own debit card (to be reimbursed by my boss) and I was soon in my car headed back to the restaurant.

I didn't even realize my mistake until I had reached the restaurant and pulled out the laminated copies to show my boss. Eeek! I had laminated the wrong menus! He wanted our new drink menu laminated. Ugh! It was an embarrassing mistake and despite being an exceptionally kind and generous human being—and all the more reason why I hate to disappoint him—I could tell by the look on my boss' face that he was less than pleased with me. I apologized numerous times and even recall mumbling something to him about my occasional "blonde moments." I quickly rushed out of the restaurant and back into my car, speeding back to FedEx Office—at that time I didn't know that FedEx Office was open so late—and was relieved to find the portly, friendly, little gentleman, who had helped me with my prior lamentation project, waiting alone in the store with a smile on his face. He asked me why I was laminating a different menu, I explained my goof. He then leaned over the front register and quietly asked me if I still had my receipt from my last lamination. I said I did. Like an angel from heaven saving me from a terrible day, as well as an expensive blooper, he told me he'd laminate the drink menus on the house. Wow! I couldn't stop thanking him. I told him that I sincerely hoped that someone, someday would do something kind for him when he was in bind. He smiled. It was an infectious smile and filled me with happiness and a glimmer of hope for humanity. My feeling of dread and failure melted away.

But, the cherry topping on my "appreciation" story happened just as I was about to leave the FedEx Office store. A FedEx pick-up worker came in through the back of the store, took one look at my savior and immediately yelled out, "What are you doing here? Don't you work at the other location?"

"Well, I was covering for someone who was out sick," replied my new friend. I was speechless. What luck? I told my boss what had happened when I returned to the restaurant with the correct menus in tow. We both agreed that I was lucky. But, after contemplating the events of my "lucky lamination" story, I realized that the alignment of the right circumstances may get us close to whatever it is that we want or need (my new friend working at that particular FedEx Office location, rather than another, as well as the fact that he was alone in the store), but our fate, is up to each other’s kindness. So, be kind to everyone, you never know when it will make the difference in their day or life.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." —Ghandi