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I have seen the above video link posted and reposted a dozen times
and every time I watch the video, I just grin and feel better about
myself and the world around me. Sure the video is a staged
production done by at least semi-professional actors and actresses
and does not show a scene in what most people would consider the real
world. However, that little fact doesn't matter in the least because
it is quite literally the thoughts and emotions behind the video that
are important.
I have mentioned a E-Friend who played on the once excellent website,
NeoPets with me and my wife who's main Avatar was known as
Grannyweatherwax. She also went under the heading of ROAK which
stood for Random Acts Of Kindness and once a month or so, she would
randomly pick the names of other players and do some good deed for
them. It might be helping them get an item they needed for a quest
or buying them some really expensive (Neopoints not dollars) gift
from the Neo Market. All she did was do her best to make other
peoples' days a little bit brighter. When I asked her about, she
told me that all you ever hear about are RAOV (or Random Acts Of
Violence.) She said you hardly ever heard about the people who are
kind to others. She told me that ROAK was her way of making sure
people understood that there were good people out there.
Ever since that talk, I have really tried to my best to live up that
idea. I really don't believe that doing something nice for some
random person on the street will change the world or even be noticed
by any number of people. However I do believe that one single random
act of kindness may change Someone's world, even if it is only
briefly. I also don't believe that every kind act you do will be
returned to in some way other than feeling better about yourself, but
as the video illustrates, it might just come back to you in ways you
can never imagine.
As anyone who knows me will tell you (Oftentimes in very loud words)
I am a bit of a jerk. I speak my mind and tell
what I feel no matter who it might annoy or peeve off. I have made a
career spanning 30 years of being “that Guy” who always stirs the
hornets nest. I am the guy most “normal” people hate.
That being said, I have always been a firm believer that it is the
small acts of kindness that cost us little that make the biggest
differences. You don't have to spend thousands of dollars to make a
person's life a little bit better. You don't have to give everything
you have to brighten one person's day. Maybe if we all did a few
Random Acts Of Kindness, then there might be just a few less RAOVs.
What could it hurt to find out? A few seconds of your time? A few
pennies out of your pocket? A little sweat off your brow? Give it a
try, you might be surprised.
Brew Long and Prosper
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