Kindness

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted” – Aesop

Every time you are kind to someone it pretty much keeps going on and on to every other person that they meet, so it will be passed on, and you can significantly better someone’s day. They will be a lot happier afterwards and in case they are having any problems at the moment, instead of bringing them down even more, you’ve actually helped them. Sometimes I go up to people in the street and I tell them that I hope they have a good day or I compliment them simply for the sake of trying to make them happier. Like, imagine some random stranger comes up to you in the middle of the street and says: “I really like your outfit today”. You are gonna think about that for the rest of your day and every time you do, you are going to smile. 

People don’t expect that and I know that, with those simple words, I just made their day a hundred times better and this why I love doing this so much. 

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible” – Dalai Lama

As a fitness trainer it’s my job to be nice to my clients and help them on their fitness journey. But as a normal person, even I have bad days and sometimes I just don’t feel like helping these people. However, I’m still trying to be nice because they don’t deserve to be treated badly just because I’m having a bad day. Just because I don’t have my s**t together doesn’t mean that I have an excuse to not be a nice person and not try to help as much as I can. The impact people have on other people is insane, simply a few words can either destroy someone’s entire day or completely make it better. 

“Treat others as you wish to be treated” – Everybody 

There really isn’t much to say about this. It’s the golden rule and it applies to everyone, whether you are rich or poor, old or young, male or female, religious or not. This is the absolute rule that in my opinion everyone should follow. It doesn’t get much clearer and logical than that, right? If you don’t want to be called an idiot, why should you call another person that.

Another example: I treat my best friend badly on a day. What is that going to do? He’s going treat me badly back. By being an a**hole towards him, I’m making him an a**hole towards me. So, by letting your bad emotions out onto others, you are essentially just shooting yourself on the foot because they will mirror your actions which just worsens your mood even more.

“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else and it will become like a wildfire” – Whoopi Goldberg

In this quote, I’m just gonna state an example. Imagine, tomorrow you’ll wake up and throughout the day you’ll be nice to ten people. Then, four of those people, because you were nice to them, will become happier and be put in a better mood. And through this, those four people will go out and be kind to four others on top. And then they are gonna do the same thing and so on. So, because you were kind to someone, you made them happy which lead them to be kind to someone else. And this could go on forever. In conclusion, by being kind to ten people you’ve actually made 15+ people happy because of the “wildfire” that you caused.

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” – Phiilo

Like I said before, everyone has their own hardships and their own struggles but by just being nice and helpful to others you let them deal with their problems without also having to deal with you. I’m willing to bet that every one of you reading this has already experienced being stressed and having problems and just not knowing what to do because there’s so much going on in your life. And then someone comes along and acts badly unnecessarily and you just think to yourself “I can’t deal with this right now.” If you have ever felt that then why would you do it to others? Just think about it. 

“Be kind, it feels good” – Maz Jobrani

Scientific evidence has shown that by being kind to others you help yourself and you feel better about it. And if you think about it, it’s actually pretty logical. I mean, how could you feel bad about yourself after being kind to someone? Even if you’re having a bad day and then you make someone smile, you are gonna feel that happiness and it will reflect on you. Sometimes I go out on the street when I feel bad and I compliment the first person that I see. Why do I do this? Because the face that they’ll make, their smile, their happiness automatically mirrors onto mine (I’m even smiling right now, thinking about it) and I feel better about myself. And even if the rest of my day was absolutely disastrous, at least I was kind to someone and made them happy and that makes the day entirely worth it. 

So, if you think about it, being kind and being happy is even a little egotistical because if I help you, it makes me happy. So, by making you happy I’m helping myself become happy. Think about it and try it out sometime. When you’re just on the street, go up to some random person, it could be a seventy year-old lady, and tell her: “I find you really pretty today.” She’s gonna smile, she might even laugh, and you’re gonna feel good about yourself. It’s an awesome feeling.