Random Acts of Kindess

I saw Julie & Julia yesterday and thought "Why not blog about random acts of kindess, thoughts about love and ways to bring about peace, joy and happiness to the planet?"

Last Friday, I smiled at an unknown co-worker, on the way into the building. Then others followed in and I greeted them as well. I noticed everyone's face brightened and particularly the first person, who was before, all focused and serious in his demeanor. My thought was how incredibly simple it was to give joy. So why is it that we more often than we should, choose to push buttons and cause more anger?

I am not very political. But my simple idea is that if each of us extended grace when we otherwise want to scream, if we loved our friends and families, and lived our personal best life, that the entire world would change for the better.

Greed and self centeredness is killing us, killing America for sure. In the simple act of going online to purchase Resveratrol, the people called to harrass me repeatedly about buying more stuff. They were not happy with the $90.00 per month I'd already signed up for! I tried getting them off my line, telling them all I wanted was the Resveratrol but they had to keep going through the sales pitch I did not have time for. It was so disrespectful that I finally told them I did not want the Resveratrol any longer. Yep, I'd rather die 30% earlier than listen to that stupid sales pitch. They kept calling me at work, and hanging up when I did not answer. They would not leave me a message. I asked them to stop but they continued to call. GREED! What did it cost them? A sale. I will find a way to buy and try it later, from somebody else that doesn't try to push me and hard sale me and ignore my rights.

My ongoing endeavor is to extend grace even to these kinds of people, while respecting my own boundaries. I did not yell, scream, just simply asked that they cancel my order, because I had now changed my mind since they were not hearing me.

Whether you are in a store, on the road, in the elevator, this week for grins, let someone in front of you and smile...see what happens. In thinking of and loving others, we get for ourselves too.