Society & Culture

Random Acts of Kindness

Society & Culture

Posted by: LokiAura

26th Nov 2011 05:50pm

I'm not sure if this should be added to this section or the charities section but after reading a magazine in the last couple of weeks I recall reading about random acts of kindness. These acts can be the smallest thing yet mean so much to the recipient and the giver. The person giving feels good because they could help in some way and the person on the recieiving end knows there are people out there who are nice and willing to help. Over the years I have done a few things to help others out - from carrying grocerries to the car of an elderly person or general things like stopping to give directions when other people have just continued walking past and ignored them - so not the way to treat people visiting the town. I have also been on the recieving end of kindness of strangers. I've been at the checkout and fallen $5 short of the total of necessities and trying to figure out which item/s I could go without and a kind lady handed over the $5 I needed. Just recently I was having a really bad day and decided to treat myself to a take away coffee. On the way out I tripped and lost the lot. One of the staff saw this and replaced it for me. I'm interested in hearing what acts of kindness you've done or have recieved. Big or small it all counts.

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