Kindness

Hello everyone, sorry it's been a while since I've posted here's
 the latest in Cassie's thoughts.


      Today I want to talk about something very important to me… kindness.  In today’s society we have to little of it in my opinion.  I have decided that what I want to do with my life is to help other people and one way to do that is with kindness.  I’m not sure how you feel when you do something kind for someone else, but for me it is one of the best feelings in the world.  I cannot tell how happy it makes me to see someone smile because of a simple kind act.  My rule is to try to make at least one person smile a day.  An example to something I did was for Christmas I made little Christmas presents for everyone at work.  Some of my family thought it was a waste of money since no one got me anything but I didn’t care if you saw the looks on everyone’s faces like I did you would understand.  I love the smiles on their faces, the look of surprise, and their reaction.  Some of the reaction it was as if some of them don’t expect kindness ever.  Let me make one thing clear before you think I’m some angel or something, I’m not I have my moments just like everyone else. There are times I feel like exploding at someone and times when I do but I still try to be nice. 
     I think this world would be so much better if people would be kind even if it’s as small as smiling at someone.  You have no idea what someone has gone through or what they are thinking so one small act of kindness could change their whole day.  Another example of people who do acts of kindness are the people who put extra change in to the meter machine downtown so that they won’t get a ticket.  They take the risk of getting a ticket for helping someone out by not letting them get a ticket.  I think that is a sweet gesture.  Imagine a world that every time a person gets angry or upset they take that emotion and channel it into doing something kind for someone else.  I bet we would have a lot less wars.  I think that it is sad they no one really expects kindness anymore so much that a person will actually question a good deed by thinking that you want something in return.  I get told that when I become an old lady I will become bitter and angry at the world because I will get sick of being kind to people and having nothing in return or seeing the world not become a better place.  I hope more than anything that those people who tell me that are wrong.  I have challenge for my readers today; start trying harder to be kind.  Even if it is just a small smile, asking someone how they are and truly listening to them, or telling someone they look beautiful.  It can truly change someone’s life; don’t you think it is better to be the sunshine than the stormy gray clouds?

Until next time my fellow readers.