Dreaming Wide Awake: Made my day of the day:
So I went to WalMart today to buy some things for my teaching demonstration. I paid with a debit card, and as I was leaving, the cashier said: “Wait, don’t you want your receipt?” And I said sure, and then he held it up and said “Well, alright…but I’m only gonna give it to you because you look so…
I don’t want to be one of those people who flaunts their good deeds in everyone’s faces, but I just wanted to share this.
I saw a picture just like this on here last night and decided that the people around here need some happiness and such. So, I made three of them (three for each floor), with the words, love, hope, faith, patience, courage, understanding, peace, passion, healing, strength, beauty, freedom, happiness, friendship, and release at the bottom. My roommate and I put them up around 10PM last night and by 12AM, five slivers of paper had been taken from the one on our floor (second photo). I was swelling with pride, though no one knew it was I who had done it. Then, just now, my roommate and I walked through each floor, seeing if any others had made any progress. The one on the second floor if the first photo, with all of the slivers except for “Beauty.” taken off of the paper, and someone wrote: “To whoever did this, Thank You.” on the paper. I almost cried. I was so happy. I wanted to help people, though this is really the smallest way possible, but to have actually accomplished it…I can’t tell you how happy I am. I’m so happy I was able to help at least one person. The sliver “Hope.” was also taped to someone’s door on that floor, and seeing that also made me extremely happy.
The papers on our floor and the third floor also have quite a few slivers taken off of them, but no messages. But I don’t even need a message: as long as someone is taking the slivers and there’s a possibility that I’ve just helped someone, I’m happy.
Seriously, everyone should do a random, anonymous act of kindness. It makes you feel like a million bucks.
Random act of kindness.
Whether you’re the one doing it, or the one receiving it, I promise it will make you day. Try it out with a stranger, see what a difference you can make.
Genuine World Kindness Tour
Kemy Joseph and Genuine Scooters are on a mission to spread love and kindness throughout America. Watch his story, and get involved! Spread kindness!
“The Genuine World Kindness Tour is about KINDNESS. It’s about reminding each individual why they are awesome and worthy. It’s about fostering a sense of community and loving your neighbor — by way of a hug, a kind word or a random act of kindness. It’s a movement. It’s a spirit. It’s a guy named Kemy Joseph, aka Mr. U R Awesome, on a red BUDDY scooter with an ever-present smile — reminding us of what’s really important.”
(via worldkindnesstour)
This is something I am trying to teach myself, and I think we all need to try harder to do.
“be kind to yourself”
“kind words are the music of the world”
(Source: taopiota)
So. This morning a nice lady got me out of my morning funk by saying hi and smiling.
Theeeennn I got home and parked at the same time as this same lady and she had an arm full of girl scout cookies. I asked her (a little toooo enthusiastically…) where she got them, (her niece), and she insisted that I take a box. FOR. FREE.Whitney in 103: YOU’RE MY NEW FAVORITE.
Going where life takes me.: I'm REALLY hungry...
For those who don’t know, yesterday I started a campaign to raise $5,000 to help my friends in Tanzania buy land needed to build a youth trade center in their community of Moshi. Most of the time, when older kids age out of the centers (like the boys in the picture will in a couple years!), if…
Inspirational <3
