One thing I’ve noticed about Reddit is the kind and thoughtful people on here. And once in an awhile, someone is so rude, so judgmental and just wants to fight and use their unkind words to disempower others. I’ve made it a priority to thank them for learning more about kindness! Through their unkind words, they teach me the value of caring, of being uplifting, and of forgiveness and appreciation. It’s how I’m reframing cruelty. I’m still finding the places within myself to forgive and to love. Being kind matters and it reverberates in the world. Its ripple effect is huge. Thats the world I’m creating, even though im cognizant of other humans who do not act from their heart/values and do not choose kindness. I will not stand for cruelty, I do not let it get me down. I continue to rise above and do what I can to make LOVE my mission! Sending love and good energy to the readers out there. 

Hello all you wonderful living beings,

I often default to a state of emotional softness when dealing with people. Easing the anxiety and internal pain of others by extending a gentle healing hand always seems like the right thing to do if you're me.

Interacting with another person in this state causes them to slowly mirror those feelings, stubbornness, anger, frustration tends to simmer down, like a boiling pot that has been removed from the gas burner.

Often times, they just want to see that other people are considerate of them and mindful. This is where emotional softness almost seems like magic. You can see their conscious awareness expand in real time as the realization hits. "This is what being alive could be, this is how communities and people can really be like". This way of interacting with people often causes their illusions about life to break... For their whole lives, these folks believed that their human consciousness is limited to the state they currently find themselves in. They believed that humans are fundamentally broken like it says in the bible. I am here to tell you, that kind of thinking is wrong and it's designed to prevent you from evolving your conscious awareness.

I am here to show folks they can do and be so much more. If you see yourself as broken and never learn to fix the parts that bother you, you will naturally operate on a lower level of conscious awareness. My softness and the ability for me to harness it so easily comes down to my healing journey, fixing or integrating parts of myself that kept me on a higher level of conscious awareness.

mientras esperaba para cruzar la calle, una señora mayor dejo caer su dinero sin darse cuenta. antes de que pudiera reaccionar, varias personas se acercaron al mismo tiempo para poder ayudarla, nadie se conocía, nadie esperaba nada a cambio, cuando termino de guardar nos sonrío y dijo : "ojala nunca perdamos estos pequeños gestos"

seguí con mi día pensando en eso. aveces las noticias hacen parecer que todo está mal, pero momentos como este me recuerdan que la amabilidad sigue existiendo en los lugares más cotidianos.

¿cual fue el último acto de bondad que presenciaste o qué alguien tuvo con vos ?

While I go for a walk or morning groceries, people who exchange a smile, say a little hello or just a small greet with ,”good morning“ thanks to you all. You guys make my gloomy winter days a lil bit better!
Thank you

If I don’t respond tonight, I will tomorrow!
\***Edit THANK YOU ALL! I tried to answer and I think I did to all of you despite a bad disc in my back, being sick and a bad right arm from typing too much! Thanks for all the love though. Really appreciate it!\*\*

It’s easy to be so self focused and even selfish. But kindness helps you think outside yourself, see the bigger picture. I’ve been really down lately but found this sub. Just thinking of being kind and helping others already makes me feel tapped into something bigger.

Maybe that is what God is - the wholeness of things we can feel when we transcend our own self concerns. As I get older and realise how fleeting life is, the more I feel the only thing that matters is kindness. A life of being a good, helpful, kind person is a life well lived. All our achievements perish and will disappear. So why not be a good person to others?

I appreciate you all.

Everybody has a moment where they think woah that person looks so cool or pretty or maybe even unique. Okay so I hate to be one of those be happy all the time type of people. But I want to just say that spreading kindness when you don't feel like being kind to yourself is good practice for thinking more positively and more intentionally.

There are two situations that happened in last month that I keep going over in my head multiple times.

The first is when I complemented this random woman's outfit, and she stopped me, and she was gushing about how it was so kind of me to say something, because most people, even when they think something kind about another person they never say it out loud. And having the courage to say something can literally change another person's day and making that decision to just say something about her outfit literally changed my entire perspective on how people perceive different interactions throughout their day to day life. For me, it was just a thing of me saying you have a nice outfit, but for her it is someone who has noticed that she is put effort into her outfit today and that her being intentional and the things she chose got noticed.

The second situation is when I attended this job fair and I went to the bathroom, and as I walked out, I saw this woman with the healthiest looking brown here I'd ever seen, and I told her that I said your hair looks amazing and she turns around and she goes, "no, it doesn't" and I am confused on why she doesn't want to take it to compliment, until she says that she actually has cancer and her hair is falling out and it's thinning", and I told her, "like, I don't notice any of that it looks amazing and you look beautiful" and I went away from that conversation thinking that in order for her to say that so quickly and so abruptly and so easily is that she is constantly looking in mirror and thinking my hair is falling out, people notice. And for me to say, hey, your hair looks amazing. Maybe now she'll go back home and she'll think, wow, my hair really does look amazing.

And I just think practising seeing positive things out loud about other people instead of just keeping it in your head and allowing it to just pass by like nothing allows you to be really intentional in the way that you interact with other people, and the way that you even interact with yourself. Positive thoughts are not just passing through at that point, they become something that is prominent.

(I used text to voice for this because i had alot to say and my fingers type too slow to say it)

I lost my ability to imagine future and have dreams about it .. because of years of being depressed and anxious .. and on survival mode wishing everything to get better one day .. and suddenly things got kinda better .. I moved on many things .. kept going and healing

But I still can't have dreams and passion and any idea about the future .. unlike how I was as a kid .. even in the hardest times I had dreams ..

I believe good things will find it's way to me .. and I see and feel light .. and I'm way more stronger, aware and mature now .. but I don't know how to dram like I did before ..

I really dreamed big ..

Help please ..

Let’s spread some kindness ❤️

I think one of the most genuine forms of kindness is helping someone without expecting recognition or anything in return. It could be cleaning up a shared space, helping a neighbor, or quietly making things easier for someone having a rough day. Not every good deed needs to be announced or rewarded. Sometimes it's enough to know that you made a small difference in somebody else's day.

Sigh

Yall can hate or ban me or anything I don't care atp. I'm down with depression, and severe depression for that matter. The only thing I enjoy is Fortnite, I recently started playing it and ever since the new skins dropped, fortnites stopped being enjoyable because of the fucking inferiority complex and feeling bad for not being able to buy the skins.

I would hate to use my illness for something like this as it sounds like an insanely crappy thing to do, but idk what to do anymore,

If someone has a Fortnite founders code/account that's unused and if you're willing to gift, you might just give someone a reason to live for a little longer. Have a great day

Early to bed for me. I might fall right to sleep as I didn’t sleep well the past few nights so if I don’t respond to someone immediately, I will tomorrow or the day after. Thanks as always in advance.

I was js scrolling and came across this.

A Blinkit driver saved a severely injured dog...healed it, and now the dog travels with him to his delivery locations.

how beautiful is this...reading such things makes me super happy because every day I see things where someone is assaulted or killed, even in public and people would js film it and not help....
Even humans are not helped, let alone animals.

kindness

For me, it’s when someone remembers a little detail about me that I mentioned weeks ago. It makes me feel like people really do listen, even when I don’t expect them to.
It doesn’t have to be anything big. Sometimes the smallest things make the biggest difference.

The world must be cruel to you, but I hope you're still gentle to yourself and take breaks. You did well every day.

Hi everyone! I posted this about a month ago and had some amazing people help me out. I’m trying to finish the project by October 31, so I’m posting again in hopes of reaching a few more places!
I’m making a sentimental gift for my boyfriend, Luke, and I’m looking for people from different cities, states, and countries who would be willing to write:

“Luke—Anne Marie’s love for you is so big, it’s reached ______.”

Fill in the blank with your city + state/country, write it on a piece of paper, and take a picture of it somewhere in your area! It can be in front of a landmark, city sign, pretty view, recognizable location—or honestly just somewhere that shows a little piece of where you live (backyards count too😂) .
Then just comment the photo here or message it to me on Reddit.
My goal is to collect as many places as I can and put all the pictures together in a book for him. ❤️
I’ll put a reference photo in the comments so you can see what I mean.
Thank you SO much to anyone willing to take a few minutes to help a stranger make a really special gift. It genuinely means more to me than you know.
I plan on posting this finished product once it’s over!

Shoutout to everyone who has helped me so far.. I absolutely adore you ♥️

Ich möchte heute einfach mal etwas Gutes erzählen. Nicht über irgendeinen Erfolg oder etwas Materielles sondern über einen Menschen. Über mich.
Und nein, dieser Text soll nicht bedeuten: „Schaut her, wie toll ich bin.“ Wir machen anderen Menschen so oft Komplimente, bauen sie auf und erinnern sie an ihre schönen Seiten. Dieser Text soll einfach mal ein Kompliment an mich selbst sein.
Ich bin ein herzensguter Mensch. Manchmal wahrscheinlich sogar ein bisschen zu gut. Mir fällt es schwer, Nein zu sagen, und selbst in Zeiten, in denen ich selbst nicht viel hatte, habe ich noch darüber nachgedacht, wie ich anderen etwas Gutes tun kann.
Natürlich bin ich nicht perfekt. Ich kann impulsiv sein, manchmal zu besitzergreifend, denke viel zu lange über Menschen nach, die mir Unrecht getan haben, und bin Overthinker und Hypochonder zugleich. Wirklich eine großartige Kombination. 😄
Ich bin extrem treu, ehrlich und geduldig. Wenn ich jemanden in mein Herz schließe, dann richtig. Ich bin introvertiert, aber wenn ich mich bei einem Menschen wirklich wohlfühle, kann ich mich komplett entfalten.
Ich rauche nicht, trinke keinen Alkohol und habe nichts, womit ich Stress einfach schnell wegdrücken kann. Stattdessen gehe ich in mich und versuche, mein inneres Kind mit all der Liebe zu beruhigen, die es gerade braucht.
Ich liebe gutes Essen, gebe dafür wahrscheinlich viel zu viel Geld aus und kann dafür auch verdammt lecker kochen. Sparen gehört also eher weniger zu meinen Talenten. 😄
Und ja, ich weiß auch, dass ich hübsch bin. Ich höre es oft genug von anderen, aber ich finde es noch viel schöner, dass ich selbst in den Spiegel schauen und sagen kann: Ich mag mich. Nicht besser als andere einfach genau so, wie ich bin.
Ich habe schwere Zeiten hinter mir und bis vor Kurzem noch mit Panikattacken gekämpft. Trotzdem ist mein Herz weich geblieben. Darauf bin ich stolz.
Und manchmal denke ich mir wirklich. Wenn ich mich selbst nicht kennen würde und wüsste, dass es so einen Menschen gibt, würde ich sie wahrscheinlich sofort als beste Freundin haben wollen. 😄
Nicht, weil ich perfekt bin. Sondern weil ich weiß, was für ein Herz in mir steckt.
Vielleicht liest das hier jemand und findet es schön. Vielleicht erkennt sich jemand darin wieder. Und vielleicht erinnert sich dadurch jemand daran, dass man sich selbst genauso liebevoll ansehen darf, wie man es bei anderen tut. 🤍

Long story short - got a stage 3 cancer diagnosis, lost my job, had insurance but still bills pilled up, took a year, beat the brakes off cancer (yay, me!) Debt reached $180k, it's been two years, I got it down to $163k. Never got my job back but I have two part time jobs that at least are income. I get one job interview for every 500 resumes I send, so optimism is just a silly thought at this point. When it was clear I would survive, a close friend setup a GoFundMe because she didn't have money to offer to help and already had done everything for me possible as a true, beautiful friend.

After a month, donations totaled $0. She called me crying, saying she would sell her car and get a bike to help me. I begged her not to but my heart was broken for her, more than feeling sorry for myself. So I went to some other friends - all of whom have been good to me but I didn't want their money and they don't have a lot to give anyway. I asked them to donate as much as they could and I would give them the money back when it was transferred to me and I would pay them any fees that were deducted.

So 5 friends did that, some asked siblings to do it to and I wound up with $12,000 donated. My friend who checked my progress daily called me when she saw the first donation "Someone donated $50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She was the happiest person on Earth. Then every other day or so for three weeks donations of wild amounts came in. One friend, as an inside joke, gave $666 because I had beaten the devil. Everyday she would call with my new tally. Eventually the flow slowed and stopped, it took a while and I got the money and she closed the listing.

I paid everyone, most didn't accept the small percent in fees and we all swore to keep this secret from her forever. Now I pay my rent and bills on time and can afford food. I'm cancer free and that makes me feel like the richest person on Earth.

So these days RAM memory is wildly expensive. I had some that cost me $50, I don't need and others are selling on ebay for $200. So I sold mine on ebay for $150 and want to donate $25 6 times to Gofundmes that are very worthy and have $0 donations.

I'd like to consider people that post in here first because it seems they can be trusted as legitimate. So please suggest, if you like.

Hey, Stranger! If life was hard on you, people were rude to you, but still you chose to be Kind and Humble, I am really proud of you.

Thank you for existing. People like you are rare.