My friend Vanessa shared a link with me recently on facebook and I am so in love with the story the link told that I wanted to share it with you all, too. It’s a project one woman took on to celebrate her birthday, and I am so excited to do it for my birthday. The thing is, my birthday is still three and a half months away, which feels like an eternity to me, so I’m going to do it for the holiday season as well.
If you’re too lazy to click the link (and I wish you weren’t, because her telling of her story is way more amazing than my telling of it), here’s her story in a nutshell: on her 38th birthday, the woman of the blog (whose name I can’t find!) celebrated by doing 38 Random Acts of Kindness, in varying degrees of “bigness.” She took back people’s carts in the shopping center, paid tolls at toll roads, and bought gift cards for strangers. It blows me away. I wish that there world were full of more people who were willing to do something like this, even something small. It doesn’t take your birthday to do a random act of kindness; it is something you can do on a large or small scale every day.
So from December 1 until December 25, I’m going to celebrate each day by doing at least one random act of kindness. More if I’m lead that way, but at least one. I dare you to join me!
