Stories of Kindness from Around the World

Reena, one of my colleagues, was very sad. She was worrying about her personal problems.  Her husband had recently passed away. She was suffering both emotionally and financially. She looked as if she has forgotten how to smile. She could not focus on her work. She did not even come for the tea break. As she had not eaten properly for several days, she fell unconscious in office. She was admitted in the hospital.

After a few days, she recovered and returned to the office. Another colleague, Charmi, had an idea of welcoming Reena back to cheer her up. So we prepared a handmade welcome card. Everybody wrote some beautiful positive quotation and signed it. Somebody drew nice cartoons on it. Someone watercolored it and pasted some glittering particles on it. Someone else made 2 paper butterflies and pasted them on the card. It was cool.

When Reena entered into her cabin, Priyanka sang a beautiful song and gave her a pink rose.  All the others gathered there and gave her the big welcome card. Reena was so happy! Especially on seeing the paper butterflies, she was excited. They were her favourite colors. She smiled bright. She learnt how to make them from Vasanti.

Two weeks after that, Reena pinned her "thank you" card on the message board with more than 50 multi-coloured butterflies of different sizes around the card! And also, she made some paper roses, cranes and bells. Her paper handicrafts were amazing. Everybody praised her work. She had spent the evening time of  her past two weeks doing nice handicrafts. And her face was glowing and filled with satisfaction from her creativity and joy. Her problems did not vanish. But her attitude changed. She was better than before.

From then she was the first person invited to offer decoration tips for office parties and meetings.