“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”

(Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

I’ve just read that 13th November is World Kindness Day and two thoughts occurred to me:

Several years ago I read a book that amused me by the author Danny Wallace called “Join Me.” [Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com]

Without giving away too much of the plot away it’s is the true life story where the concept of random acts of kindness is involved. (And that’s as much of the plot I’m going to spoil for you J ) In case you are imagining huge charitable donations either in time or money, a random act of kindness don’t have to be anything large – it can be as something as simple as holding open a door for someone with lots of bags or deliberately leaving enough change in the vending machine at work so that the next person gets a free chocolate bar.

I also happen to know that when you are looking for opportunities to give a random act of kindness, the more the opportunities become noticeable as being around. So my invite to you today is to look for the opportunities to give a random act of kindness – you don’t have to do any of them, unless that you really want to, the game is just to spot them.

Have Fun

Jen

PS If you really want to take this game to the extra level you may like to remember that you are allowed to include yourself in this game – what could you do to be kind to yourself?

This Post was originally published on the site Your Changing Direction.