National Kindness Day

[DulwichFox]

Today is National Kindness Day..

What Act of Kindness will you be doing today. ?

DulwichFox

[Nigello]

Not sure what constitutes kindness today. General civility (holding open doors, picking up someone's dropped gloves, greeting the bus driver, etc) doesn't need trumpeting, so what is a good example of what the organisers of NKD think is kindess?

[intexasatthe moment]

Giving unasked for hot drinks to delivery people ,street vendors ?

A box of biscuits for receptionists ( GP ,dentist ,lovely man in Chener Books )

A few appreciative words to people toiling in their front garden ?

Flowers for the crossing person ?

[uncleglen]

I was out of London for some days recently for the first time in a while and was gobsmacked at the politeness and the profusion of untouched flowers on roadsides and in public places. National Kindness is de rigueur outside London....

[Seabag]

uncleglen Wrote:

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> I was out of London for some days recently for the

> first time in a while and was gobsmacked at the

> politeness and the profusion of untouched flowers

> on roadsides and in public places. National

> Kindness is de rigueur outside London....

Where do you want to go UG?

I'll pay for the ticket

[Otta]

uncleglen Wrote:

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> National Kindness is de rigueur outside London....

Unless your face doesn't fit of course.

[Otta]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Where do you want to go UG?

>

> I'll pay for the ticket

That is SO kind. That's the spirit.

[JohnL]

The Metros got the spirit right (or maybe not)

http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/31/national-kindness-day-why-cutting-people-out-of-your-life-is-an-important-part-of-being-kind-to-yourself-6545031/

[womanofdulwich]

Why can't everyday be kindness day? :)

[alice]

it could be

?Kindness?

Naomi Shihab Nye

Before you know what kindness really is

you must lose things,

feel the future dissolve in a moment

like salt in a weakened broth.

What you held in your hand,

what you counted and carefully saved,

all this must go so you know

how desolate the landscape can be

between the regions of kindness.

How you ride and ride

thinking the bus will never stop,

the passengers eating maize and chicken

will stare out of the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,

you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho

lies dead by the side of the road.

You must see how this could be you,

How he too was someone

who journeyed through the night with plans

and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,

you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

You must wake up with sorrow.

You must speak to it till your voice

Catches the thread of all sorrows

and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense any more,

Only kindness that ties your shoes

and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,

only kindness that raises its head

from the crowd of the world to say

It is I you have been looking for,

and then goes with you everywhere

like a shadow or a friend.

[Earl Aelfheah]

When's national meaness day?

[rendelharris]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> When's national meaness day?

Under the current administration, every day of the year.