Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone.
There’s a girl in Mexico I talk to regularly. Every month, I send her $30. It might not sound like much, but that $30 turns into around 700 pesos, and it helps her a lot. While that’s an ongoing gesture rather than a random act, kindness doesn’t always need to be spontaneous to be meaningful.
But if we’re talking random… when I was delivering pizzas in Houston, there was always a man on the corner holding a sign. I’d often hand him $5 from my tip money. It wasn’t much, but it was something. I used to dream of the day I could hand out $100 bills 💵 like candy. Maybe one day.
Here’s the thing: it’s not our job to judge what someone does with the kindness we offer. If they take that money and buy food, great. If they use it to buy a drink or get high, well, that’s not for us to decide. Maybe they need an escape more than a sandwich. Maybe they’re surviving the only way they know how.
I was homeless once. Sixteen years old. Still a child. I slept under a bridge, ate at the soup kitchen, wandered the streets with no direction and unable to understand why my own mother wouldn’t let me come home. I was too young to understand what I was going through. But even then, kindness found me.
A kind man, the director of a local community center, bought me a bus ticket to Minnesota so I could enroll in Job Corps. That ticket changed everything. It meant a roof over my head. It meant meals and a chance to keep going with my education. It gave me a future.
Kindness saved me. That’s the message. And the story of kindness doesn’t stop there, but in the essence of not making this post too lengthy, we will save the other stories for another day. 🥰
Always be kind. Always help someone. You never know how deeply they might need it, or how far your one small act could carry them. ❣️
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