Elizabeth Miri | The Monarch Ranger
Photo Credit: Kevin Cate Twitter, @kevincate
While dining at a Waffle House in Midway, Florida, former spokesperson for the Obama campaign Kevin Cate spotted something unusual. He noticed a man attaching notes to a lot of $5 and $1 bills. All the notes were the same, simply saying: ‘love every body.’
Curious, he approached the man to see what he was doing. Cate later posted on twitter that the man had given away $13,000 since 2014 to strangers at Waffle House and other places. When Cate asked him why he chose that specific message for the notes, he explained that they were his mother’s last words to him. “She didn’t say ‘I love you.’ She said ‘love every body.’ So that’s what I’m doing. Loving every body.”
Cate’s tweet went viral, getting 10.4K retweets and 63.6K likes. Cate ended the thread saying “Response to this couldn’t be any more beautiful. Thank you,” and commented that the mystery man’s mom clearly is still with him, and now with all of us.
The simple act of kindness that this man has done for so many strangers is remarkable, giving of his own money and resources to others, and expecting nothing in return. He did not do this for fame or any sort of reward; he did it out of the goodness of his heart.
While the “love every body” man still remains anonymous, we can all learn something from the example he has set. As Winston Churchill once said, “we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
We should all try to make the world a better place, and ‘love every body.’
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