Michelle Morte

Tag: pay it forward

  • What are you thankful for Michelle?

    What are you thankful for Michelle?

    The typical answer is always: health, home, family friends, food (aka everything stated in the featured image – which is also not my image)

    **UPDATE: This is my 20th post woot woot!

    Whenever someone is asked that question, and I’m guilty of this too, I don’t think they really think about this question too hard. Mainly because they starved themselves the whole day knowing they have a fat meal waiting for me, which again is also something I’m guilty of. However, this year I figured I would really explore my answer to that question.

    So what are you thankful for this year?

    Everything, to be honest. I’ve been lucky enough to work in an industry I thought was going to be a pipe dream. Instead two years ago, I was lucky enough to meet my mentors while interning on a feature. And since then, they’ve given me the opportunities to help me grow within my department. And starting this year, not even a year out of college, I got to move up from being a production assistant to being an assistant production assistant (APOC), coordinator (POC), unit production manager (UPM) and line producer on ultra low budget shows.

    I’m extremely thankful for where I am in my career now. And thankful to everyone who has supported me along the way. My career journey doesn’t stop here, and I don’t plan on stopping any time soon. Just keep on following and we can both see where tinsel town is going to take me.

    With that little blurb on what I’m thankful I’ll leave my comments open for you. So tell me, what are you thankful for this year?

  • Random Act of Caffeinated Kindness

    Random Act of Caffeinated Kindness

    I know this may not look like much. To be honest it just looks like a regular cup of coffee. Nothing special. But that’s to most, most times to me too. But not today. 

    Today a random woman paid for my coffee. She didn’t know who I was. I didn’t know who she was. Hence the term “random” being used as this human’s adjective. 

    Anyways, I had just settled a rather unpleasant matter not even 30 min earlier. Along with the fact that I was tired considering I didn’t gett off work until 5 this morning. So you can see just how tired I really was. Well after I had settled the unpleasantness, I figured that it was about time I needed coffee, since I hadn’t had any yet for the day. So I drive to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf close to my place and order my coffee. Then I wait until it’s my turn to pull up to the window ready to pay when the cashier said that the lady in front of me paid for my coffee. 

    Needless to say it was a pleasant surprise. And if just goes to show you that even though we live in political climate full of turmoil we shouldn’t ever lose hope. Want to know why? Because random act of kindness like this, shows that there is a glimmer of hope for humanity. 

    Well I just wanted to share a pleasant happening today. And I hope you all have a great day full of positive vibes.