Random acts of kindness.
That sounds pretty nice. I have heard of people going into a
toy store and paying for someone’s toy that is on lay-a-way at Christmas time.
If it is on lay-a-way, then you can be pretty sure that the person could use a
hand with the finances. Nice thing to do. There are many other ways to do
random acts of kindness; you can compliment someone’s outfit, hair, shoes or
really anything. Who doesn’t like a compliment? I hold doors for people and try
to give them smiles whenever possible. Like I said, there are many ways to do a
kindness.
The last few days in Calgary ,
there have been three or four anonymous people who have bought the next five
hundred coffees at certain Tim Horton’s locations around the city. My wife
tells me that often people will buy the coffee for the next person in line at
the drive through. This is the first time I have heard it done on such a large
scale. A free coffee won`t change your life or solve your problems, but it will
make your day. It is a good thing.
I can`t help but think that the eight or nine hundred
dollars could be put to better use. I`m not saying that the people who use the
drive thru at Tim`s are all rich, but they have money enough for a coffee and
are more than likely on the way to work. There are food banks that $800 would
help to keep running for a week or so. The Salvation Army could buy some more
of those survival kits that they gave out a month ago to the flood victims in Calgary
and southern Alberta . It wouldn`t
be so random, but it would be an act of kindness.
Yes, I would love to get a free coffee. It would start my
day off very nicely. Who knows where that act of kindness will end up? It might
end with someone opening a door and giving a smile to a perfect stranger. It
might inspire someone to buy a toy or two at Christmas. It might give someone
an idea of how to help the homeless. I suppose that you just never know where
it will all end. Perhaps the 500 cups of coffee was inspired by someone else
buying that anonymous person a coffee for no other reason than they thought it
would be a nice thing to do.
You can`t see me, but I am giving you a smile and I
encourage you to come up with your own version of a random act of kindness.
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