Stories of Kindness from Around the World

I recently came to this site and just started reading the stories.  The changes that people in this online family of helping others have experienced, have moved me deeply. In fact, this particular quote that had been posted was what gripped me:

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

The day I discovered the quote, my printer was out of ink so I couldn't print any smile cards, but I didn't let that stop me! I went out of the house and made my own cards. I put a different quote about kindness and the pay-it-forward message on the smile card, and included a link to the helpothers website.

The next day, I bought three turkey-shaped sugar cookies in the lunch room at work and told the cashier to give them to the next three people who came in her line (as there was no one currently behind me to know it was me). I also gave her three of my hand-crafted cards, and told her that one should accompany each respective sweet treat. She smiled and called over another fellow cashier as I was leaving, and showed him the cards and cookies, so that he was in on the smile card "trick." Enjoying the suspense, I exited the lunchroom smiling.

Tomorrow, I'm going to take in some boxed goodies that I had assembled, including chocolate-covered preztels, carmelized peanuts, and a bundle of gummy bears. My plan is to place my mystery boxes in two of my co-workers' cubicles when they disappear for lunch. I want to be the change that anonymously inspires good will and kindness in the work place. =^.^=

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -Aesop (The Lion and the Mouse)