Parents often try to balance the ‘gimmes’ of the holidays with giving back. We want our children to appreciate what they have while teaching them about what other people don’t have. We want them to understand that life isn’t about what you have, it’s about how you make others feel. And we want to do all this amidst the frenzy of Black Friday shopping, toy commercials, and our kids writing out lists of what they want for Christmas. Sometimes lists that are longer than they are tall.
I get that it’s easier to walk through a door and not hold it open for the person behind you or to look-through the cashier scanning your groceries instead of seeing her. I know how good it feels to flip someone the bird when they cut you off or to purposely not let someone merge into your lane just because.
Yesterday I was on a high. And not my usual marker smelling high. I was on a high because we started a Kindness Revolution. And within hours, our #BeKind hashtag was the No. 1 trending topic on twitter. It was amazing watching the #BeKind twitter stream and reading the random acts of kindness being tweeted out.
I just wanted to take a quick sec to clear up one thing. During the height of #BeKind more than a few people tweeted giving me credit for the Kindness Revolution and oh, what a great idea! Let me be abundantly clear...