Kindness in its entire context is something we rarely see in the world we live in today. Everyone is too busy worrying about work, school, being late, and the number one distraction of all, our cell phones. Taking three days out of my time to really focus on acts of kindness was not only interesting but it was gratifying to the point of teaching me a valuable lesson I will most likely carry with me for as long as I live. It is now to my understanding that acts of kindness don't necessarily mean to give a homeless man a hundred-dollar bill, or donating thousands of dollars to a charity of choice. Acts of kindness are sometimes so simple that we may not even realize we are being kind, but in the end the person on the receiving end of that act feels gratitude and that is what matters. Spending three days thinking of what I could do to help someone else instead of thinking of myself made me grateful for all those people that still believe in the gift of giving, and made me want to be one of those people that aren't too busy to make a change in the world, one of those people that are kind because they want to be from the bottom of their hearts. .
When it came to my first act of kindness, I will not lie it was quite the challenge; Ironically enough because we go about our lives thinking about thousands of things except being kind, that theory becomes foreign to our daily acts but I was focused on making the difference. When I was walking outside of my work office without thinking of my assigned task I came across a woman who happened to be walking in front of me, she walked without being bothered by the many things that were going around her until I realized that a small paper had fallen out of her purse, not really caring much about it since it looked like a receipt, I thought to myself, "what if that is an important paper and here I am thinking it may be a simple Starbucks receipt.