“You can always, always give something, even
if it is only kindness”
(Anne Frank)
With ever-increasing
demands on our time, energy, and resources, many of us feel that we are doing
all we can just to meet our obligations. As a result, we often let pass the opportunities
that we have to help other people. Crucially, it’s not only those in need who
pay the price of our indifference. We, too, lose out by not helping others.
Psychologist Sonja
Lyubomirsky conducted an experiment in which she asked people to carry out, in
the course of one day, five kind acts that they would not normally do. These actions
do not have to be grand and dramatic. An act of kindness can be baking cookies
for your neighbour, or donating money or time to a cause you believe in, or
helping a friend think through a dilemma, or giving blood, or even simply
opening a door for a stranger. What Lyubomirsky found was that whether large or small, these acts of
kindness contributed significantly to the well-being of those who gave, not
just while they were performing these acts, not just for one day, but for the
entire week.
[Taken from Choose the Live You Want (2012) by Tal
Ben-Shahar, PhD]
Don’t remain indifferent,
Do something – help and contribute.
THINK BIG.
START SMALL. GO DEEP.
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