2006-10-21 15:45:14 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
I have this book, that has ben passed onto me....it's been signed by the previous owners & i have signed it...the first person to email me an address i shall pass it on.
365 ways to make the world a nicer place
My Personal Faves:-
If someone cuts you up in traffis, instead of flicking them the finger, smile and wave like a lunatic!
Post a packet of seeds through someones letter box who has a nice garden.
Stand outside a weightwatchers meeting, and tell everyone as they leave how trim they are looking
Get a group of mates to wrap some randon presents and give them out on the way home from the pub
2006-10-22 01:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by untanuta 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Random acts of kindness... Haven't we all? Shoveling snow for a neighbor who isn't feeling well, offering to look after a friend's kids over the weekend so that she and her husband can have a couple days to themselves, sure. If you mean the really random ones, spur-of-the-moment kindnesses to strangers, here's one: I gave a ride home from the grocery store to a scruffy looking pregnant woman who was clearly headed for the bus stop several blocks away, barely managing all her shopping bags.
But now if you'll pardon me, I'll get on my soapbox. IMHO, performing random acts of kindness don't make us better people. They're done on a whim and they don't cost more money, time, or patience than we can spare at the moment. Meaning, they don't require any discipline or sacrifice. The good feeling that follows upon doing one is really only self congratulation, "Aw, look what a nice person I am!"
And as for the companion phrase "senseless acts of beauty", well, if something is beautiful, it's not senseless at all. Beautiful things make us more observant with our senses (sight, sound, even taste) and through their own excellence, their nearness to perfection, they make us more spiritually aware too.
So when "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty" shows up on a bumper sticker, I grimace. Wouldn't it be better to say "Practice kindness consistently, and learn the hidden logic of beauty"?
Hey, I know it's more than you asked for, but thanks for reading.
2006-10-21 16:18:46 · answer #2 · answered by Samienela 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I try to be nice to people all the time unless they are taking advantage of that kindness. I try to be a good listener and help people with their problems. That is what first attracted me to this site. I make baked goods for the people at work. I bring food to our employee meetings each month. I donate to the March of Dimes. I cook dinner for my friends. I always call people to wish them a Happy Birthday. I'd even give you the shirt off my back if you needed it. Being kind to others makes me happy in a Karmic sense.
2006-10-21 16:07:27 · answer #3 · answered by star28mama 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I give donations to soup kitchens. I donated to the legal defense fund for a cancer patient that was busted for treating their cancer with marijuana. I bought my parents' townhouse so they don't have to pay mortgage payments in their old age. I stopped to help a guy with a broken down car on the freeway. I loaned some money to a guy that is trying to get his business off the ground, even though I'll probably never get paid back...
2006-10-21 15:55:09 · answer #4 · answered by johnlb 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Recently, while walking from my car to the grocery store, I noticed an old man wandering around the parking lot, looking extremely lost and confused, holding a prescription bag in his hand. I went over to him and asked him if I could help him. He told me he couldn't find his car and I guided him towards a couple cars that fit the description he gave me until I found his car for him.
2006-10-21 16:12:25 · answer #5 · answered by RobynGee 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most recently I brought some food to a homeless guy that was on the street. It was a bowl of spaghetti with salad. He was really happy and I left feeling both sad and happy at the same time.
2006-10-21 15:47:42 · answer #6 · answered by VR 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Feeding poor
Taking care of relative and poor patients with help of Allah All Migty and to say good thigs and expose the evil and invite people to the right path so that their lives can be peaceful in both worlds.
2006-10-21 15:48:41 · answer #7 · answered by pathowiz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
have faith it or no longer, i attempt to do a minimum of one form concern generally going on despite the fact that if it extremely is basically to grin at somebody who sounds like they might prefer a splash cheering up. as quickly as I do spectacular issues for persons, quite people i do no longer know, it makes me sense great interior! So it extremely is like an advantage to be form. Take care luv
2016-11-24 21:59:57 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... I held this ladies baby a few times on the plane ride home from Europe. She had to go to the bathroom and I offered to hold her while she went.
2006-10-21 15:54:09 · answer #9 · answered by alexxxa $ o's 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like painting index cards for my friends and slipping them under their doors or sending them through the mail. Anything to let the people I love know they are loved.
2006-10-21 20:21:07 · answer #10 · answered by Elaine 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋