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hardy

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I find helping others who are less fortunate than i am always makes me happy...please try.

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Christmas kindness

One year when my 4 children were young ranging from about 5 to 15 I had been unemployed for over a year and there were no prospects. It was approaching Christmas and we had talked to the kids telling them that this year there would be no gifts to share with each other. They were great about it and they all accepted it without complaint. I have always felt that no matter what your religion Christmas is a magical time of year and should be about love and kindness but this year I was really down. I had always enjoyed Christmas as a child and my parents had never failed to provide a wonderful Christmas for me so I was really feeling down that I was not going to be able to do that for my children this year. One night about 3 weeks before Christmas we were sitting at home not doing much and the doorbell rang. We went to answer it only to find no one there but a white envelope laying on the doorstep. We opened it and inside were $750 dollars cash with a note that said "Merry Christmas from someone who loves you." We never did find out who did that for us but it was one of the best Christmas' we ever had. To repay that act of kindness for us the next year I was working and we knew of a family in our neighborhood who was in similar circumstances. We were still catching up from being unemployed for so long so we could not afford much but we scraped together $400 dollars and did the same for that family. This world is filled with so much anger and hatred and saddens me that we can't all accept one another as fellow human beings without having to display so much anger and hatred and judgement towards others. Random acts of kindness as appear here give me hope in our race as human beings.

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hardy said:
I find helping others who are less fortunate than i am always makes me happy...please try.

random acts of kindness

Christmas kindness

One year when my 4 children were young ranging from about 5 to 15 I had been unemployed for over a year and there were no prospects. It was approaching Christmas and we had talked to the kids telling them that this year there would be no gifts to share with each other. They were great about it and they all accepted it without complaint. I have always felt that no matter what your religion Christmas is a magical time of year and should be about love and kindness but this year I was really down. I had always enjoyed Christmas as a child and my parents had never failed to provide a wonderful Christmas for me so I was really feeling down that I was not going to be able to do that for my children this year. One night about 3 weeks before Christmas we were sitting at home not doing much and the doorbell rang. We went to answer it only to find no one there but a white envelope laying on the doorstep. We opened it and inside were $750 dollars cash with a note that said "Merry Christmas from someone who loves you." We never did find out who did that for us but it was one of the best Christmas' we ever had. To repay that act of kindness for us the next year I was working and we knew of a family in our neighborhood who was in similar circumstances. We were still catching up from being unemployed for so long so we could not afford much but we scraped together $400 dollars and did the same for that family. This world is filled with so much anger and hatred and saddens me that we can't all accept one another as fellow human beings without having to display so much anger and hatred and judgement towards others. Random acts of kindness as appear here give me hope in our race as human beings.

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I agree with you. I try to do something for someone else every day. Not always big things.. sometimes it's tiny things.. for example letting someone go ahead of me in a queue. I try to look for opportunities to help other people every day, it gives me a sense of purpose, and selfishly, it makes me feel good about myself. I also volunteer some of my time, but of course I'm not able to do this every day. It makes me feel more 'okay' about the world.

I used to feel really guilty all the time, even when I did nice things for people, I'd chastise myself for feeling good about it, like it was an inherently selfish action. Nowadays I'm much more comfortable, I realise what I do may not be considered 'true' altruism (but then, what is) but I know that I do help people, and it benefits them, so there's no harm in feeling good about it.
 
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hardy

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It seems to me that when we help someone else or think about someone else instead of ourselves, our problems don't seem so important anymore.
I try to find at least one act of kindness I can do to help others a day and it helps me as well! Try it, it takes the focus off of you.
One site that helps you help someone else is www.thehungersite.com where for ea. person that clicks on the sign, they give a cup of food to the hungry at no cost to you every day! That's easy & does a little good in the world. :wink:
Ok, I'm done for today! 8)

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