{"id":865,"date":"2022-04-07T05:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T05:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2022-04-15T06:25:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T06:25:39","slug":"activation-7-act-of-kindness-to-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"Activation &#8211; 7 Act of Kindness to Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Wanye Thompson&#8217;s weekly advice posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short he charged listeners to get up of their seats of complaint and do 7 acts of kindness to strangers.  The idea is to start countering our environment from becoming more contentious as it is heavily polluted with derogatory words.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I took up the challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.smithkas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/brett-jordan-Be-Kind-unsplash.jpeg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-870\"\/><figcaption>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@brett_jordan?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Brett Jordan<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/kindness?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below are my results so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Friday 1 April, 2022 &#8211; was introduced to a new hire at work.  At the end of the work day while  leaving the office, I shared my experiences with the induction training and told him if he has any questions that I would be happy to help<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Saturday 2 April, 2022 &#8211; left home with about 70p with the intention of giving it to someone.  These were coins that I had accumulated for several months.  Later in the day I saw a man sitting in front of a Marks &amp; Spenser Store on Ealing Broadway while he was asking people passing for spare change.  I placed the 70p in his cup and gave him a thumbs up.  <\/em>He gave me a &#8220;Thank you&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Monday 4 April, 2022 &#8211; On a few occasions over the past weeks I noticed a cleaner in the office building who works quietly and efficiently on small projects.  So today, when I walked pass her I made eye contact and greeted her with a &#8220;Good afternoon&#8221;.<\/em> <em>She returned the greeting.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tuesday 5 April, 2022 &#8211; While at the counter in a restaurant waiting to make a take away order, a young girl (I estimate to be about 12 years old) asked one the staff for a box cover.  After several attempts, the server did not understand.   When the server&#8217;s back was turned to the counter I suggested to the girl to ask for a cover for the bucket.  The girl followed my suggestion and got the cover\/lid she wanted.  As she turned to walk away, she said &#8220;Thank you&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday 6 April, 2022 &#8211; While in a grocery store, a woman pretended that she did not see me in front of the queue.  When it was time for the next shopper she looked at me as if she was confused.  I smiled and gestured that she should proceed before me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday 7 April, 2022 &#8211; Wanted to buy a magazine to support a homeless vendor but I did not have enough money &#8230; so I contributed the money I had to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Above is my list.  Join me and share one of your experiences in the comment section below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Wanye Thompson&#8217;s weekly advice posted on Facebook. In short he charged listeners to get up of their seats of complaint and do 7 acts of kindness to strangers. The idea is to start countering our environment from becoming more contentious as it is heavily polluted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/?p=865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Activation &#8211; 7 Act of Kindness to Strangers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-interest"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}