Stories of Kindness from Around the World

Extendeding The Hand of Friendship


--by MakeSomeoneSmile, posted Feb 14, 2011

The last few weeks I took on a more difficult kindness task that I thought I would try. The idea was from a card that I pulled from my smile deck and also inspired by a few posts here. I decided to reach out to a few people I had not talked to in years.

One was a relative who I had lost touch with 25 years ago. She was very happy I reached out. The other 2 were friends I had not talked to in nearly 10 years. Both were great friends that we just lost touch with each other. It was great to talk to them both.

With one of them, I reached out at a great time for him. He expressed his appreciation of my friendship and said some very kind things to me about our past. As many of you know I believe that everything happens for a reason so I believe it was not necessarily an accident we reconnected. I am glad our friendship mattered to him and also glad he sees it as a big positive we got in contact again.

It has reminded me that it is good to be the one to take the initiative to be kind and reach out. Even if it seems difficult at the moment, in the end it offers wonderful rewards!

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Readers Comments

unknown wrote: great to see you proactive ... its worth it mss :)
tunde wrote: great. let always dere to reconcile. even with those seems to be enemy
Bluebell wrote: I am pleased that you reached your friends with your light. Love and Light and a Thousand Smiles, Bluebell
luv4all wrote: so good to hear this :) hope you are having every day wonderful with the kindness mission you are on .
rileyb wrote: @MakeSomeoneSmile- Thank you SO much for sending me KarmaBucks! It brought a smile to my face:) I can't wait to use them! I am going to get smile cards to hand out to the 5th grade class that I teach!
leigh wrote: These writings are lifting my spririt that i had not realized it had sunk so very far. I have let things pile up. I can only promise that i am goinng to try and be compassionate if anyone does me wrong. Instead of attacking them back
hasifa wrote: tThis is the second time I have read about someone reconnecting with loved ones from the past. Like you, I too believe that everything happens for a reason so I know it’s no coincidence that I read your story today and the other story yesterday. I do have some people from my past that I need to reach out to. Thank you for your inspiration. And yes, that was a very challenging act. Someone you have not talked to in 25 years? Wow that is amazing.

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