Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
– Philo
Hmmm….this is a new weekly theme suggested by Claudia, an online turned real life friend who I hold dear to my heart. The point of Everyday Kindness is to bring to light the small tokens of kindness shared by all of us every day. Most of us focus so often on the negative junk in our lives that we rarely see the little bits of kindness sprinkled into them by others.
The biggest kindness I saw this week was shown to me by you, my readers. Why you all keep showing up to read this drivel is beyond me, but I’m sure glad you do! On Friday, I took a deep breath and shared the first chapter of my NaNo novel with you. You have no idea how hard that was for me. I love to write, but I rarely show anyone anything I have committed to paper. I am terrified that people will not take the same joy from my writing that I have put into it or that I will be laughed at and ridiculed.
You did none of those things. The comments I received that day are by far the most meaningful comments I have received regarding one topic. You were all so kind and supportive of Gracie and her journey. I am going to choose to believe you all meant what you said as it is giving me the strength to push Gracie on her way and find what lies beyond the horizon for her.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for being so wonderful and so kind. I love you all….Now come on and join the fun…..tell me what your kind act you are going to commit today!
Well done! I love the circular nature of this post –>the kindness your received and are giving<– nice! I think we are all excited to learn more about Gracie.
My kind act for the day was to myself. I got up to write rather than lay in bed awake for hours wondering why I can’t get my writing done….
Awesome post! I love this Everyday Kindness Idea. Today I am wearing wind pants to school b/c one of my students was very upset when his mom dressed him in wind pants for school and they made noise when he walked. So in solidarity for my student I’m wearing mine today. Let the noise commence in the class room!
Great post! We all meant what we said about Gracie. I can’t wait to read more.
As for my act of kindness, that’s a good question.. must commence thinking
Good Morning Girlfriend! Great Post. I know I meant every word I said about Gracie and her journey. I’m sure the others did too!
My act of kindness today? It’s Veteran’s Day. I’ll be praying for all our men and women that have, are and will serve our country. If I actually run into one today, I’ll buy them coffee … or lunch.
Tessa
I found your link at Everyday Kindness and it’s nice to meet you. I’ve been a member of Everyday Kindness since the beginning and am planning to participate in Simply Kind Tuesdays at my Sacred Ruminations blog … starting with today’s post honoring Veterans. Like you, I’m grateful for those who read and comment on each of my blogs. Best wishes to your participation in NaNoWri Mo. I’m participating in NaBloPoMo for the second year running, but I’m not ready to tackle a novel yet. Maybe next year?
Hugs and blessings,
I applaud your dedication to committing Everyday Kindness. There are days I just want to smack people down lately. Maybe I should re-evaluate how to handle “those people.”
P.S. I loved your NaNo chapter (even though I am a slacker ass friend who did not comment on the original post).
I loved your post too:-) I hope that your confidence begins to rise to meet the level of your writing because you deserve to feel good about it…then again-you’re a great writer so we don’t want your head getting TOOO big-lol! Keep it up-looking foward to reading more.
Today DC and I, and a dear ‘old friend’ of DC’s are going to court to have DC’s best friend committed in order to try and save his life. DC’s best friend is the brother of the ‘old friend” whom we picked up at the airport last night. DC’s best friend – a man once sweet and kind has become such a bad alcoholic that even the local hospitals that he’s been too last few weeks say he has five months at best if he doesn’t dry out and clean up. So today my act of kindness is one that DC’s best friend will probably hate me for. I truly don’t care if the best friend hates me, as long as he is alive and around to hate me, it means it worked.
bah – sure doesn’t sound to kind, committing someone against their will – but trust me, in this case it is one of the biggest acts of kindness I’ve ever done.