Random Act of Kindness

Has anyone do random act of kindness? If so state a time you did and if you do it often?

Do you feel better when doing something geuinine without expecting something back?

I find myself doing it a lot just because I have a kind spirit. I do it for myself and I actually feel content when I do.

I do simple things like holding a door for a person and other small things.

Like today I am cooking before going to work and one of my brothers head to work early. I'm going to get a togo bag for him so he can eat at his lunch. He works very long shifts so I'm just doing being kind and making sure he eats.

Just things like that keeps me at peace. 🙂

Aww that is sweet of you to do that to your brother. Hope he appreciates that.

hmmm... I'm generally not a kind person. since I'm cold, arrogant and fiesty. But I don't forget special events (birthdays, anniversaries, christening, etc) does that count?

every month we have this thing called, give love to kids with my buddies. We have one kid from the orphanage that lives with us, and then after a month he/she goes back to the orphanage and we get another kid. I pass up the infants since I work and I have a 5 year old.

Lol yes that does count! I don't forget special events either.


awww that is sweet what you do for the orphanage 😄

If holding doors for strangers counts I do it everyday. That's just being decent though. I think it'd be rude of me to let the door fly back in your face.

Actually going out of my way to be kind to a stranger is a little less often. Every few weeks (I don't keep track) I take a homeless person to lunch. Over the spring and summer my daughter and I volunteered at Habitat for Humanity.

Yes. I participate in random acts of kindness to strangers relatively often. In general, these acts relate to buying food for homeless people, something that I do pretty often. But there are other instances as well, examples include: helping a lost child find his/her parent in a store, helping an elderly person with heavy objects or giving them my seat in a public place, helping a stranger find their way when they're lost, etc.

Yes. It makes me feel good to help others and I expect nothing in return. A thank you is always welcome though 😄

Male cancer here. I love doing random acts of kindness. This morning I took all my coworkers in my department starbucks, today was my day off but I wanted to do that for them. I then had some people from other departments who were bummed that they didn't get any so I went back to starbucks and brought more coffee for them. I like to make people happy. I want nothing in return, just the type of person I am.

Posted by cheekyfaerie
Yes and I'm always looking for more ways to get my girls involved.

Before the program fell apart, we were part of a feed the homeless initiative that gave out brown bag lunches, we give to Toys for Tots every year, donate sleeping bags to shelters, make an extra grocery run just for the local food pantry, bomb parking meters, gift play books and crayons to our children's hospital and art supplies to my Shorty's daycare program... that kinda stuff.

And yes, I do it almost selfishly. Not because I think I'm better than those we're able to help, but because it makes me feel really good to do it. I may never be able to make a large scale difference, but it's nice to do things on a local level too.

You the real MVP.

Posted by cheekyfaerie
Yes and I'm always looking for more ways to get my girls involved.

Before the program fell apart, we were part of a feed the homeless initiative that gave out brown bag lunches, we give to Toys for Tots every year, donate sleeping bags to shelters, make an extra grocery run just for the local food pantry, bomb parking meters, gift play books and crayons to our children's hospital and art supplies to my Shorty's daycare program... that kinda stuff.

And yes, I do it almost selfishly. Not because I think I'm better than those we're able to help, but because it makes me feel really good to do it. I may never be able to make a large scale difference, but it's nice to do things on a local level too.

The parking meters-- I love that. —

I used to be a courier, and when I was running around downtown

I would do that, too.


Random kindness toward 'our fellow man' gets lost in the shuffle

sometimes, I think... but the impact can be enormous because it's

often contagious.


🙂

lol at rabbit.


good stories guys! 🙂

Posted by cheekyfaerie
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Monty,

Early last Dec, I won a $ 200 pulltab at my local pub. Could tell people got a lil miffed I didn't buy the bar a round, but I had other ideas. Instead, I gathered my troops and the three of us went on a mini spree.

Minus about $ 50 (I'm no saint!), half went on toys and the rest in non perishables for the food pantry. Took a pic of all the loot and put it on the pub's FB page. The owner thought it was so cool, he started a drive to try to match me and a few of my friends caught the bug and did their own good deeds as a result as well.

Definitely contagious. 🙂

NICE! 🙂

Leave it to a Cap to make it happen via the Pub.


But when I said 'fellow man', I meant you also extend

the kindness to your neighbors-- randomly and for free,

regardless of income bracket-- not just the officially

underprivileged.

I try to do what I can. Volunteer a lot. Working a food drive now for homeless families etc. I think it's just important to be excellent to each other.

I love going out of my way to be kind to strangers and friends alike. It's actually quite selfish because it feels really nice to do good things for no reason. No true altruist.

It's especially nice if you're in a bad mood, perks me right up.