Story

Last week I was catching up with one of my neighbors who I hadn't seen in a while. She and her husband are an incredibly sweet elderly couple that has lived in my neighborhood since I was a little kid. While we were catching up, she had mentioned how her husband had recently fallen and his hip replacement had become dislocated. It was a big ordeal as he couldn't get up and since she wasn't able to lift him they had to call 911 and go to the hospital. She told me that after they returned from the hospital which ended up being a few days longer than they expected, they found that someone had decided to pick up their mail each day and bring their trash cans out on trash day. She found out that the person who had shown this act of kindness was a fellow neighbor of ours who had noticed they hadn't been home in a few days and decided to help out. Even though he was a neighbor of ours, she had not spoken much to him before and was touched that he took care of their home without even being asked. I could see how that act of kindness meant so much to her at a time when she really needed it. After hearing her story it made me think about how seeing someone else’s act of kindness makes you want to be a better person. Kindness is truly contagious, for when we see others happy it makes us happy and causes us to want to spread that joy on to someone else. It was a great reminder that acts of kindness can come from anyone, at any time, for any reason! There are no rules to how to be kind, simply acting from your heart is enough to make someone's day. How can you spread kindness today?

Collector Card Details:
"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees."

-Amelia Earhart

Artist

Jasa Villanueva