Let's start a kindness movement!

Agree-- there are seemingly too many people angry and so many things.

Kindness..... Can there ever be to much?  Surely is not enough... I'll do it!

I have been haring a lot lately about random acts of kindness.  A friend of mine had a stranger ahead of her in the Taco Bell drive-through line pay her $30+ bill for her.  She has aleady recipricated that kindness to someone else, and on it goes!  I like the Hug a Realtor idea, too!

Hi BethAnn!
Does cooking dinner for your hubby count??? LOL!  Actually, I now can't wait for tomorrow to look for some things I can do! Thanks for the idea!

Love this idea!  Paying it forward is so important!  I find it takes so much more time and energy to be rude than it is to be kind.  Thanks for the push and let's see how it catches on!

Love the idea and love the foodbank suggestion. I think it is so important for us to be involved in the community - good for the soul, good for the community, and good for business.

Every year I have a project....I take someone who I can't stand (for whatever reasons....) and decide that year I am going to put the past in the past and be super nice to them, actually go out of my way to be nice to them....It is amazing....maybe it is just me, but things really turned around, and once I actually started getting referrals from that person!

Jared, Ihave had BB BS in the back of my mind for a few years...JUST this past weekend I filled out an "application".  I was spurred on by the death of a 15 year girl in our town...She had been on drugs for years (I couldn't believe that)...her mom died when she was 8.  I kept thinking maybe someone could have made a difference, like big sisters..so I checked out the site, and filed the application...I am waiting to hear back....

Kindness is the oil that keeps our souls malleable and our lives filled with meaning. 

BethAnn, thank you for writing an important post which obviously inspired many remarkable answers.  It is now featured on the Optimist Group and I am flagging it for an AR feature.

My specific story...  just keep your heart open on a regular basis and you will accomplish great things.   I don't even think, I just do.  Whenever someone needs a shoulder to cry on, an arm to hold on to, a rock to lean on...  I'm there.  It just feels right and it nurtures my soul.  If you are open to it, the opportunities to commit random acts of kindness will present themselves with regularity.  Sometimes they are small, sometimes they are significant, but always, they are appreciated, and always, they nurture the giver as much as they they nurture the receiver.

Hi BethAnn!
Thanks to you, and I really mean, thanks to YOU, I saw an opportunity for an act of kindness and followed through on it.
I was at Lowes buying light fixtures for a listing. I also picked up some odd lightbulbs for my own house. I had to bring the burnt out ones just to know what to buy.  When I was at the back of my car loading up the fixtures, a nice young man (Herman) approached me. He asked if I would like him to take the cart. I said sure...just let me get my old bulbs out of it.  He then said, "I can throw them away for you".  I was floored, and thanked him for his kind offer.  When I got in my car, I thought of your act of kindness.  I picked up my phone, called the store (even though I hadn't left the parking lot) and told the manager how nice Herman had been...how he had gone out of his way to help me.  Thanks for giving me the inspiration!

Paula, Thanks for the reminder, kindness comes at no real cost to any of us. Let's exercise it!