Kindness Archives - Truly Rich and Blessed

I was contacted last month by someone working for Chinet, specifically about their campaign for their stylish new ComfortCups. Dubbed “Random Acts of Kindness,” Chinet asked people what they would do with $1,000 to make the world a better place. Every week, Chinet received hundreds of entries and selected winners, rewarding their goodwill with the money to fulfill their random act of kindness.

The campaign started with a , with people handing out tons of free coffee and spreading joy to everyday people on the streets. The people behind the campaign captured it all on film and in an effort to spread the word, they’ve come out with the video below, in the hope of further inspiring random acts of kindness among different communities.

Cool, huh?!

Actually, watching this video made me realize again how simple acts of kindness can actually make a difference in other people’s lives. This is something I learned firsthand during a Summer House Training (SHOUT) I attended as a campus-based leader of CFC Youth for Christ (waaayy back when I could still fit into a size-25 pair of jeans! LOL! 😉

Part of our SHOUT involved training on servant evangelism, something our leaders probably picked up from Steve Sjogren. We had to perform random acts of kindness for complete strangers, e.g. give them bottles of water, treat them to “dirty” ice cream for the local ice cream vendor, help carry their bags, etc.

Think about it… Kindness is really something we all need AND lack at one time or another… I mean, wouldn’t it be great if we were the recipients AND doers of such random acts of kindness every day? What a different world it would be!

Call me idealistic or a dreamer, but I believe one doesn’t have to be promoting something in order to be kind. However, the people did a great job in reminding us about it, didn’t they? 🙂

So let’s resolve to be a bit kinder today, shall we? (I’m going to start with my own husband and kids and our househelp — I know I haven’t been as kind to them as I’d like to be this past week!)

How do you promote kindness in your family and community? I’d love to read your thoughts! 🙂 Please feel free to comment below!

In memory of Wang Yue

By Featured Blogger Tina Santiago-Rodriguez, October 25, 2011 12:00 AM

If you’ve been on social networks like Facebook or Twitter recently, you probably have heard about or maybe even watched the video about the Chinese toddler, Wang Yue, who was involved in a hit and run accident then ignored by passersby. (In case you have the stomach for it, you can watch it here, but doing so will probably just leave you sick at heart, outraged and maybe even in tears – I know I was!).

The incident has sparked outrage everywhere, including among the Chinese themselves. Eighteen people were seen on the CCTV footage totally ignoring the little girl, who was unconscious and bleeding.

How could people just walk by as if the little girl lying there was a cat or similar animal that was run over? Surely if someone had come to Yue’s aid earlier, she would not have been run over a second time, and she may have even lived through the incident. Sadly though, she did not.

As a mother of a 2-year-old girl myself, it broke my heart to watch the video. I was in tears and outraged, thinking “What has our world come to?” I could only pray for the poor little girl’s soul, comfort for her grieving parents (who must feel terribly guilty for letting her wander away from their shop) and the entire Chinese community as well.

*This is just a preview of my post for the week on Philstar.com’s unBLOGGED section. To read the entire article, please click here.