Kindness-the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.
“Remember, there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” – Scott Adams
In every thought, in every word, in every action a person takes, there is an opportunity to practice kindness. It comes down to a simple choice to make life a better experience for someone else or to make it more difficult. You make this choice a hundred times a day. Look at all the interactions you have, either in person or even in the world of social media. Each comes with a chance to be kind or not, and you are the only person who can make that choice.
Ripple Effect
Much like casting a stone in the water, that water will ripple outward from the point of impact is clear and constant waves. You never know where those waves are going to end up. But they do exist and move out affecting the world in some small way. Kindness is like that, even though you may not be able to see where the ripples of a kind act land, they do exist and will land in some small or large way in the world. So do the deeds of insensitivity, judgment, or meanness.
All of the actions you create are going to have an impact on the world. They provide energy to the lives of all the people that you interact with and to yourself. Think about the effect you want rippling out from your life. Is it going to be positive or negative? The quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate has the power to make your ripples positively change the world.
All Things Get Better
Whenever you choose to practice kindness in your life, it will make whatever situation you are in becoming a better one. You never know what struggles a person is suffering on the inside behind a happy front. Your choice of kindness may be the
thing that keeps hope in humanity alive for these people. Being kind is not something a person does for what they can get, but because that is who you are.
No matter what choices you have made up until this point, today, you can make a change by being kind to someone else. Kindness in its most basic existence is to see the humanity in someone else and put the happiness of that person as a priority. It makes all situations more enjoyable, memorable, and fun. And again, we choose the level of kindness we spread in our lives. Kindness is a gift we give expecting nothing in return. But we get a great deal in our soul, and that is not something that needs to be recognized by anyone else. It just is.
Be Kind Today
Make an effort today, when the situation arises, to give a compliment from the heart, to smile at someone to spread joy, to be supportive of another when you can. Stay away from speaking poorly of another, or gossiping about someone else’s situation. Rather than judge, accept. The life that receives the most benefit will be yours. Take a moment and be conscious of the kindness you can give today
“Sometimes, it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.” – Jackie Chan
“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.” – Harold S. Kushner
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” – Princess Diana
Great Articles on Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness
Kindness Makes You Happy… and Happiness Makes You Kind
11 people whose random acts of kindness took over the internet
