terça-feira, 14 de setembro de 2010
Extreme kindness!!
I was searching for inspiration throughout the net when I came across this cute animation about kindness! It's worth watching and reflecting upon our own actions!
Nowadays any kind of kindness is being considered extreme kindness!!
People have been leading such a stressed and hectic life that one cannot find room for anything but practicalities. Practicality and kindness are simply antagonistic words.
I am still one of those freaks who are always saying 'please' and 'thank you' all the time, standing up for elderly people and pregnant women, etc. I get very impressed when someone tells me I am very polite just for doing this.
I had two situations in which my sense of civility, not to say, humanity led me to acts of great kindness. I wouldn't say they're extreme but some people would classify them like that.
Everyone knows that there are special seats in every public transportation. They are usually close to the door and have different colours. They should be available for people with special needs, either for their age, disability or pregnancy. About three years ago, I was going back home from college. I took a bus in spite of my huge 8-month-pregnant belly. I couldn't fit through the turnstile, so I sit down on the first seat, next to the door, since the other two seats before the turnstile were not available. After a while, a blind woman caught the same bus and I had no doubts whatsoever of standing up, so that she could sit. Another woman that was standing next to me got very angry because she thought the other two young women sitting on the special seats should have done what I did. I told her I was fine, in addition to that fact that my prerrogatives for being pregnant wouldn't prevent me from being kind and recognizing the blind woman needed the seat more than I did. Of course, I could have stayed in my seat and no one would say a word to me because of my big belly, but it is not in me to ignore such a thing.
The other situation was about 7 years ago, I was also pregnant and I was going to the doctors in Copacabana. Again I was on my way in a bus and all of a sudden it broke down in a "quite" dangerous place. Some people decided to stay in the bus and wait for another one to come and pick them up. However, not onlu I had an appointment but also I got terrified of staying there. When I got off the bus a woman with two kids decide to follow me . I stayed near the bus and she walked a bit more. We planned separately to take cabs and get out of that place. We waved at the same time at a cab coming in our direction, but as she was between me and the cab, I thought it would take her first. Instead, the driver stopped right in front of me!! The woman looked at me desperately, believing she would have to wait longer. I asked her if she wanted to join me on that ride, which she imediately accepted. I almost got late to my appointment because she was going to a different place, but I was very glad to help her and her kids at that moment.
I also found an interesting website talking about kindness. Check it out!!
http://www.actsofkindness.org/welcome
See you, Janine
Nowadays any kind of kindness is being considered extreme kindness!!
People have been leading such a stressed and hectic life that one cannot find room for anything but practicalities. Practicality and kindness are simply antagonistic words.
I am still one of those freaks who are always saying 'please' and 'thank you' all the time, standing up for elderly people and pregnant women, etc. I get very impressed when someone tells me I am very polite just for doing this.
I had two situations in which my sense of civility, not to say, humanity led me to acts of great kindness. I wouldn't say they're extreme but some people would classify them like that.
Everyone knows that there are special seats in every public transportation. They are usually close to the door and have different colours. They should be available for people with special needs, either for their age, disability or pregnancy. About three years ago, I was going back home from college. I took a bus in spite of my huge 8-month-pregnant belly. I couldn't fit through the turnstile, so I sit down on the first seat, next to the door, since the other two seats before the turnstile were not available. After a while, a blind woman caught the same bus and I had no doubts whatsoever of standing up, so that she could sit. Another woman that was standing next to me got very angry because she thought the other two young women sitting on the special seats should have done what I did. I told her I was fine, in addition to that fact that my prerrogatives for being pregnant wouldn't prevent me from being kind and recognizing the blind woman needed the seat more than I did. Of course, I could have stayed in my seat and no one would say a word to me because of my big belly, but it is not in me to ignore such a thing.
The other situation was about 7 years ago, I was also pregnant and I was going to the doctors in Copacabana. Again I was on my way in a bus and all of a sudden it broke down in a "quite" dangerous place. Some people decided to stay in the bus and wait for another one to come and pick them up. However, not onlu I had an appointment but also I got terrified of staying there. When I got off the bus a woman with two kids decide to follow me . I stayed near the bus and she walked a bit more. We planned separately to take cabs and get out of that place. We waved at the same time at a cab coming in our direction, but as she was between me and the cab, I thought it would take her first. Instead, the driver stopped right in front of me!! The woman looked at me desperately, believing she would have to wait longer. I asked her if she wanted to join me on that ride, which she imediately accepted. I almost got late to my appointment because she was going to a different place, but I was very glad to help her and her kids at that moment.I also found an interesting website talking about kindness. Check it out!!
http://www.actsofkindness.org/welcome
See you, Janine
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