How do you feel after you have went out of your way for someone?

Question

I mean going Randon Acts of Kindness kind of thing.. I challange everyone that reads this , that Tomorrow do something for someone and write back and tell us what you did and everything that happened ..(I am sure the random acts of kindness as some ideas)
I am going to do it myself
GOOD LUCK

Answer 1

So many of the posts on Yahoo! answers could be considered random acts of kindness! People go out of their way (sometimes) to provide well thought out responses to problems that are really serious in many cases. It feels good to help people when you can and to remind ourselves that we have opportunities to do that every day. I think it would also be useful to think about the many ways that others go out of their way for us: what random acts of kindness have we received? I think you just inspired my next question...

Answer 2

well it isn't tomorrow. But I did go out of my way 2 save a freshman from a bad break up with her bf. @ our school seniors talking 2 freshamn is bad. But i heard her bf, talking about how bad he was going 2 make it when he dumped her. I knew it would B really ugly and i wouldn't ever want that 2 happen 2 me. So I talked 2 him about Y and then I went 2 her and told her all I knew. They ended up breaking up, but it wasn't ugly and she broke up with him so he didn't get 2 be ugly 2 her. It mad me feel good 2 C her happy after she had done it though. I was glad that i had taken the time 2 tell her.

Answer 3

I always feel good about going out of the way to help another person. doing things for others can be so rewarding when you've done something for someone besides yourself. It can also be stressful when the person isn't appreciative of the fact that you went out of your way for them. Despite the feelings I have received in the way of no appreciation, I continue to do things for people that go above and beyond my requirements. I feel that one day all the good I've done will come back to me. After all, what goes around comes around.

Answer 4

You want believe this but when I see a cross on the side of the highway that has flowers around it, (99.9%) are at a tree. I go and purchase a card of sympathy and place $5.00 in the envelope, and say a few words of encouragement. The last one I just said,
" I feel your pain", I've been there. Plant a flower for me, and for your loved one that was taken from you at this spot.

Signed:" A Total Stranger" . A silver plaque has been inset in the cross with her name...She was 19...So sad...

Answer 5

One of the highlights of each day for me is finding someone in need to help if it is appropriate. I have had so much help in my life and I often wonder where I would be if so many people had not done random acts of kindness for me.

I feel good knowing that I am giving away the kindness that has been given to me. Pay It Forward is one of my favorite movies.

I like your question. Thanks for asking.

Answer 6

I feel great! Especially if the individual did it without expecting anything out of it. That's true service!Anything from a simple smile to cleaning up someone's yard without them knowing is awesome. We had a project one time called Secret Service Agents where we cleaned up this one area in the neighborhood and anyone participating wasn't supposed to say anything because it's a secret. It's more fun that way.

Answer 7

I do something without any expectation of anything in return everyday. It's usually things like holding the door open for people or expressing a kind word. It doesn't cost anything to treat people good. I've been doing it for years.

Answer 8

Your challenge is an excellent one and I too encourage everyone to perform some act of kindness. It can be even better if the person(s) to whom you do it have no idea who did it for them.

Answer 9

Shoot, last time I did something like that, I got accused of either "trying to buy people's friendship" or having an affair. I chipped in with my other friends to buy my best friend a fish tank as a surprise for his birthday, and his wife called me up a week later to tell me that she was no longer going to "allow" me to be his friend because everyone she asked about it thought that it was a gesture that a girlfriend would make. She said that she didn't think I was having an affair with her husband (I was also married at the time), but that there must be something wrong with me for being so generous and felt that I was causing her to lose face in front of her family, friends (and had even consulted a couple strangers in her store). This was the dumbest thing I ever heard for a number of reasons:

a. The gift wasn't strictly from me, it was from me, our other mutual friends and his coworkers.
b. I've spent way more money on my other friends, and she knew that.
c. I don't have to buy friendship, because these people were already my friends. I buy them birthday gifts because I like them, don't need personal possessions myself but I do like to shop, it makes them happy, and I don't want anyone feeling left out.
d. I've never heard of a fish tank being a sentimental gift.
e. If she's so worried about what people think about her relationship with her husband, why is she discussing her business with everyone, including strangers on the street?
f. I could understand if she was just uncomfortable with me giving her husband gifts, but she actually told me to stop giving my other friends presents unless it was something like baked goods. Just because she's stingy, what gives her the right to tell me what I can and can't do with my money, and how are baked goods less sentimental than a fish tank? I'd love to know. (Incidentally, this woman's been known to accept obviously romantic gifts like flowers and home-prepared gourmet steaks from her customers at work).

Why'd we get him a fish tank? He's obsessed with the movie "Finding Nemo." We made him get his own fish.

I'm the type of person that if a stranger asks me if they can have something I have, I'll give it to them without a second thought, not because I need them to like me (I really don't give a crap who does and doesn't like me), but because I don't get attached to material goods, and it pleases me if it will make someone else happy when it wouldn't make a difference to me. But I have found that in general, strangers are more appreciative and respect me more than people I know. My other friend says that my problem is that I'm the type of woman who makes other women insecure because I'm confident, smart and don't care about "normal" women's concerns like makeup, clothing and sex, which probably explains why nearly all my friends are males, but I think this lady's problem (I've met her and spoken with her on many occassions) is just that she has such poor self esteem and is such a bitter, greedy person, she can't imagine anyone not being like her.

Did she return the fish tank? No. She went and insisted on picking out and buying the fish herself as her "birthday present" to him. Must not have upset her that much...

Answer 10

Helping someone is a pretty neat feeling, but I don't really like to bring up what good deed I did.