After-thoughts that define you

It's often the after-thoughts in life that have the greatest impact.

Think about it... the times you went into a shop on impulse and came out with the most fun t-shirt EVER, or picking up a paper someone left on the train, with an article about cows being airlifted from a cliff, or turning back to help someone you saw in need. It's the moment you grabbed an extra coffee for someone at work, and it was just what they needed. It's that phone call you make, late at night and completely unexpected. It's giving someone a hug, just because you can. Well last night... I experienced such a moment.

I was helping to celebrate my friends birthday party. As the weather is just so absolutely fabulous, it was decided that it was a BBQ (or Braai for my SA friends) was the way to celebrate. I decided that the most perfect contribution I could make was to bring a chocolate cake.

I was happily decorating it and adding lots of colourful fruit and ribbon. I had a great time putting beautiful red roses on top... And then I stepped back to assess my work...

Now whilst it may look to the ordinary observer like a triumph of chocolate. It occurred to me that it looked a little bit too suspiciously like a 'girly' cake. Which would have been okay if not for the fact that I was making a joint-cake for a girl AND a boy.

So in that moment as I walked out the door... it occurred to me. There is only one way to redeem this cake. And thus it became another of those after thoughts in my life. That will, in the end seek to define me. For it is in the ordinary-everyday decisions that your life is built. So you can see for yourself.... My afterthought to 'boy' up the cake....

... I do believe I became know last night (and perhaps redefined) as the person who brought The Buzz-Lightyear Cake. And thus my friends .... "To infinity and beyond"...