I am endeavouring to be a more karmically balanced person and therefore am performing a random act of kindness each day - well until I forget/don’t have time/am trapped under something heavy.

So, today I made the postman a loaf of bread. He came to the door yesterday to deliver a new sling (woooo!) that wouldn’t go through the letter box and asked if it was fresh baked bread he could smell, I said that it indeed was and he went off sniffing the air and talking about how his sister in law used to bake for him, but not now…grumble…mumble…

This morning, I had to go out early but I left a loaf in a bag on the trellis outside my door with a note. I hope he enjoys it.

I encourage everyone out there with a few spare mins to do something to make someone smile, it doesn’t have to cost anything and you never know, what’ll come back to you!

I was just thinking it’s pretty random to bake the postman a loaf of bread, until I read on!:)

Angie

My thing today was to smile at people we passed and say good morning.  In return I received surpised smiles and good mornings back   Particularly from the gentleman, who I think may have some sort of learning difficulty; he tends to shuffle a bit; always looks a bit anxious when he sees someone walking toward him and smokes a pipe… but oh, his face did light up when I smiled at him and said “Good morning”. 

Joxy.

How lovely! 

Thats lovely! You’ve inspired me to do the same.

Gorgeous; I love doing this too.

Sometimes a smile is all it takes; but a loaf of bread goes down a treat too LOL!

I helped the elderly guy in a mobility scooter behind me in the supermarket queue unpack his basket onto the conveyor belt today; it really took me outside my comfort zone because I’m scared someone will think I’m being offensive and I hate confrontation / rejection. but he was really grateful, so all was well ....

That is so lovely I always like to smile at people, hold doors etc but I guess that’s just manners! Random acts of kindness sound gorgeous imagine what a ripple effect this could have on a community. Thanks Rachael I feel really inspired and grateful that there are lovely people like you in the world.

This is a really lovely post!  As Starchild said, it’s not always easy to go out of your way to show kindness to others, but this makes it doubly important I think.  I will definitely keep this thread in mind, it really does cause a ripple effect when people are kind to each other.

@ EmmaLG - Well faith in humanity takes a little restoration once in a while! I am really no better than anyone else, it’s just that I am having a good day today!

Well, I picked up an old man from him bottom - he’d slipped on the the ice a few weeks back. He was so grateful and said he’d already fallen twice that day but he needed to be out getting food :( Poor chap. Not really an act of kindness though, just something anyone would do.

And then in the supermarket this week, a lady sneezed next to me and I said “Bless you”. She looked at me like I was a disgusting species of poo and walked off! Misery!

But then a lovely lady chased me down the baking isle with Eveline’s sock that had been flipped off. She said she knew it would be my infant’s sock as she remembered her colourful blanket!

xxx

We like to buy the homeless guy in town a hot sausage roll, and hubby just helped some people get their tyre off after it got stuck from a puncture.  Little things are always the best things.

How lovely of you (and wishing i was your postie lol)

Ketty x

I love random acts of kindness. Often you don’t even have t go out of your way to be nice… Holding the door for someone, looking the person at the till in the eye and saying thank you (I hate it when they just mumble through their responses and never look at me - so I make a deliberate point of saying please and thank you and goodbye), letting someone in a car go first, it’s the little things.

I love this idea, we have always been a very smily family and luckily live in a village where nearly everyone smiles and says hello which is so lovely.  Re post people, my kiddies made our post lady a card as she was leaving - when she left she popped a big box of chocys on the door step as she loved the card so much, we then made her some truffles the next time she did a round near ours at Christmas