#kindness heals

[obscureoldguy]

‘I have $1500 that I’m giving away’: Man becomes legend for extreme acts of kindness toward strangers

Jon Potter, a local hero in Pittsburgh, upped the ante on his generosity last week when he donated a kidney to a father of two.

An article about a truly kind and generous man; who suffers from depression, and is challenged by autism.

“I get what I need,” he said. “I’m not very religious, but at this point I definitely believe there’s an order to my life and there’s an order to the universe, and I believe the order is good.”

[ariesnotes]

The most powerful gift you can give: Silence that listens, A heart that understands, And presence that heals.

— my Instagram - instagram.com/notesaries

[katfreee]

[mentalality]

The Kindness & Positivity Jar

It’s very easy to get into a negative frame of mind about the world, especially if, like me, you have a tendency to a negative cognitive bias.  You can feel as though, day after day, everyone you encounter is trying to make your life more difficult.  In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it can seem that people are so inconsiderate that they would shove you out of the way if it got them what they wanted faster.  I, too, have days when I feel like the world is out to get me, and human beings seem to be missing some humanity.  

At these times I find that the littlest gestures or a couple of kind words can make all the difference to how I feel, so I decided to start to keep a record of these little rays of sunshine.  I guess I wanted to prove to myself that the world isn’t a largely negative place, and give myself permission to listen to my heart; which tells me to see the good in people as much as possible.   

During 2017 I started a jar.  Each time someone did something that stood out as particularly kind or that turned my mood around, I took a little scrap of paper and wrote it down, folded it up and put it in the jar.  At the end of the year, I was able to look back at how much positivity and kindness there really is.  When I look back, it reminds me that there are some truly lovely people out there and that I'm lucky to quite a few in my life.  Here are some of the things from the jar; I've decided to do something a bit different and present each one as a picture so they're a bit more interesting:

[silence-shes-dreamin]

Just because someone my seem fine on the outside doesn't mean their not screaming for help on the inside. Be nice to people, you never know what their actually going through.