Can Kindness Can Make a Differnce

Can Something as Simple as Kindness Really Make a Difference?

Practicing Random Acts of Kindness is one way to bring about important systemic change. We currently encounter various signs of disrespect among adults and children – road rage, adult-to-adult intimidation, school bullying. While violence can demoralize a community, kindness can empower and uplift it. Kindness is one of our most important human tools in connecting with one another, enhancing the emotional climate around us, and bringing good into the world.

Kindness is fundamental to human experience and is essential to the success of human relationships. We all need kindness shown to us, and we all need to express it. Kindness connects us to one another and inspires hope within us.

Kindness also transcends those boundaries we place among ourselves – boundaries of religion, race, gender, culture, age. Kindness encourages friendship, reciprocity, and healing among individuals and groups of people. To be kind is to call forth the best of our humanity.

And the reality that excites me is that kindness is so simple. Everyone can choose to be kind – simple acts of kindness can make such a difference.

How have you been encouraged by giving, receiving or observing an act of kindness?