I "finished" my "thirty days of nice". Looking back at the things I did, big and small, I feel good. And I'm glad I have a record of it, for myself. I never feel like I do enough for others and often feel like a "bad" person. (It's a whole 'nother blog to deal with that), so it was great to write about handing out my daily gifts of nice. It's become a habit now and I will keep it up though won't write daily about it, not right now.
I was thinking about what inspired me and it was when a woman I'm acquainted with spoke about how she was frustrated with her 6-year-old son when because he wasn't doing his homework one night. He was preoccupied with something else, with what she thought was just goofing around, drawing pictures, and when she asked what he was up to, he told her he was creating little packets to give to the homeless people he had seen in the neighborhood! He put a dollar into a Baggie and included pictures he had drawn and a little note: "You are loved".... She was so amazed at his compassion and generosity and enjoyed seeing the reactions of the people he gave a Baggie to as they walked around the neighborhood with him the next day.
I thought, if a six-year-old can do this small act of kindness "done with great love" then I could and SHOULD as well. In whatever way I could manage. That's how I started...and what inspires me to continue.
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