Dear
Daughter,
I
believe that kindness is one of the most important virtues because it is an
important basis in everyday life. It is a strong moral to have. Kindness can be
giving a simple smile or helping someone cross the street. We can use this
virtue in every situation. When your in a good mood and someone around you
isn’t wouldn’t you like to keep your good energy and show some kindness, rather
than be effected my their bad mood. Every single person in the world has the
ability to choose how they treat others. We should all choose to be kind.
For me,
kindness is important to give, much more than to get, because it not only gives
another person the opportunity to feel better about them, it also gives me the
ability to feel better about myself. Wherever you’re just keep your eyes and
ears open, you never know who might be in need of you. A smile, a word, a head
nod, a hug … with just these you can change a person. When you look at the
world through a lens of kindness, non judgement and compassion, you would see
good people. People just like you — people who want to be happy. Without the
kindness of strangers you wouldn’t have food on the table or a roof over your
head. Don’t forget that we are all interdependent. We can’t experience anything
without each other. Allow kindness to become the natural and spontaneous
response to every situation, with this increased ability to respond
compassionately, true success will follow.
All
around the world, there are many big-hearted individuals who practice daily
acts of kindness. Patience Salgado, who is known as “kindness girl”, leaves $5
vouchers in shop backpacks for the first day of school and scrawls messages of
hope on footpaths. There’s a seven-year-old girl who has raised enough money to
give 700 teddy bears to hospital patients, and a group called Wake Up in Sydney
who’ve sent out more than 75,000 free kindness cards to encourage random acts
of kindness. And another group of
youngsters who started Letters of Love, a global initiative ensuring that
thousands of refugee children, tended by the UNHCR, receive personalized New
Year cards from people like you and me. And in my case, I’m part of a group who
ensures education and financial help for children and family from not so sound
background. And by the time you read this letter, this NGO is going to reach out thousands of children out there. Because it's my dream project.
What I learned from an act
of kindness is that never underestimate the ripple effect of your actions on
the planet. And don’t underestimate the boomerang effect your actions will have
on your own life; even if not immediately apparent.
Keep in
mind that
people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people
will never forget how you made them feel.
My
little one, I pray, I truly pray that you're a kind-hearted soul. Kindness is
one virtue a human being must possess.
Yours,
Me.
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