Random Acts of Kindness Week
If you’re like me, you find it hard to keep up with the trending weeks and informal holidays like National Hawaiian Shirt Day and so on. Sometimes they are so silly and obtuse that all we can do in our busy lives is take a moment to chuckle about it and move on. However, this week brings with it an important message and involves no dressing up.
This week is Random Acts of Kindness Week, and we have already started making it a priority in our office and among ourselves. It’s amazing how just a brief second of being kind can change the entire mood and day of a stranger. How many times have you been in a terrible state of mind, ready to just explode, when someone you’ve never met takes an extra moment to pick up the thing you dropped or waits just a minute longer to hold the door open? For some reason, it’s almost impossible to remain angry after an encounter like that, and it often acts as the catalyst for an excellent remainder of the day.
I don’t think it’s much to ask that we all try to remember to say our “please” and “thank you’s” this week. Of course, we all should already be doing that, but no one is perfect and often times our moods and lives get in the way. Perhaps this is the week that we take just a step beyond a vocal appreciation and send someone we appreciate a “thank you” letter or e-card. Sending an e-card only takes about 2 minutes, and with great sites like 123Greetings and Care2 you can easily make individualized cards for your friends, coworkers, and family. (Another thing to keep in mind: sending a free e-card is paperless and therefore green!)
It’s easy to extend kindness beyond our computers and work places. HelpOthers.org and Squidoo both have entire lists of ideas all revolving around being unconditionally nice to one-another. While it is important to be grateful for the niceness of others, it is vital that it doesn’t stop with us; the principle of ‘paying it forward’ should be practiced this week more than ever. If you’re not familiar with the phrase, it simply means that instead of ‘paying someone back’ for a good deed, you pay it forward to someone else. If that person follows the same idea, and the next person, and the next… it creates something beautiful. (It is also a great movie, but is likely to make you cry.)
As you go about your week, please try to spread the word about Random Acts of Kindness Week. If life gets in the way and it slips your mind, the very least we can all do is remember to pay it forward.
As always, we are open to suggestions, comments, recommendations and stories about this week’s topic. Do you have a specific memory when someone did something unconditionally kind for you? Or have you ever done something that you know made another person’s day? We love to hear uplifting stories, so please feel free to drop us a comment!
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Evelyn Bruder: CRS, GRI, ABR, E-PRO, Las Cruces Cyberstar
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