Jan 3, 2013

What One Person Can Do

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and
what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? —R. Buckminster Fuller


It seems that we humans vacillate between self grandiosity and self deprecation.  Neither is a good place for our souls to reside.  We are humans:  nothing less and nothing more.  According to Buddhist tradition, to be born as a human is the greatest gift we could be given.  In that belief system, we might very well have been born an ant, or an oak tree, or a shark.  That belief system suggests that we appreciate that no other life form can reach the level of consciousness that we, as humans, can.  So, as a human, let us consider it is possible that we can contribute to either the success or the failure of this planet -- because we actually can.  Just look at all the examples of One Act of Kindness or Kindness Paid Forward that were in the news during the holiday season.  Did those acts of kindness make a difference in the quality of life on this planet?   You bet they did.  Your acts of kindness can too.  Today let us each do one act of kindness for which we do not get recognition.  Perhaps you can pay for the meal for someone at a restaurant, or a tank full of gas for someone at another pump, or leave a trash collector $20, or call your street department to compliment the person who plows.  The list is endless, as acts of kindness are limited only by our imaginations.

Doesn't that feel good to have done an act of kindness anonymously?  Not only does it make you feel better; it improves the quality of life on our planet. 

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