There aren't nearly enough acts of kindness in the world anymore. Simple acts of service can make unimaginable differences. Acts as simple as smiling at someone and asking how their day has been. We often don't see the far reaching effects of our deeds. For example the person that we smile and talk to for a while may in turn decide to reconnect with an old friend that thought no one cared, and was on the verge of leaving this world. In chaos theory its called the butterfly effect-small acts causing huge changes such as a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a string of events that results in a tornado on the other side of the world.
In the movie pay it forward the main character makes a plan to change the world by doing acts of kindness for three people who rather than pay him back are supposed to do three more acts of kindness and so on until everyone in the world as been touched by an act of kindness. Who's to say that such a thing couldn't really happen? It could. It starts with a single act.
Simply thinking about doing good deeds isn't enough. "We have to actually do them. The smallest good deed is greater than the greatest good intention." "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." I don't know who was the first those great words but the message is worth thinking about.
What good deeds will we do? How will we change our world for good?
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