One day in a restaurant, the American writer Anne Herbert wrote this sentence on a piece of paper: "Random actions of kindness." Later she repeated it in an interview on a TV show, and it soon caught people's eye and made people think about how small "kind" actions could make our daily lives better.
One rainy night, a woman was standing at a bus stop waiting for the bus. A man came by on a motorcycle and offered to give her a ride. Of course, the woman said no. It would be crazy to accept a ride from a stranger on a motorcycle. Suddenly the man reached out and put a 50-dollar bill in her hand. He said, "Please take a taxi. It hurts me to see you standing here in the rain. " Before she could refuse, he left quickly on his motorcycle.
Kind actions can be contagious. Once, a woman was going through a toll station on a highway. Instead of paying for one ticket, she asked for two. She said to the toll collector, "The second ticket is for the car behind me." She didn't know the person in that car. She just did it without thinking more. So when the next car came up, the toll collector said to the driver, "You don't have to pay. The woman in the blue car just paid for you." The driver was so surprised that he decided to pay for the person behind him. This continued with14 drivers that day. So just imagine what the world will be like if we all practice random actions of kindness from time to time.
