Today is Random Acts of Kindness Day

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Today is a very special day, as it is a day when people everywhere stress the importance of being kind – something so simple, yet sometimes so hard to find.

In honor of the holiday, let’s all work together to help someone out today, and every day, not for a reward but to be a kind human being.

A few ways you can observe this holiday are as follows:

• Pay for the coffee or meal of the person in front of you in line.
• Leave a kind note for someone, no explanation is needed.
• Share words of encouragement. You never know who might need them.
• Put your skills to work for someone in need. For example, offer to create a résumé for someone seeking a new job.
• Drop off a load of groceries at the local food pantry.
• Mail a “thinking of you” card to someone you’ve not talked to in a while.
• Order a bouquet of flowers to be delivered to anyone in the hospital. That means, call the florist and tell them to pick a hospital or nursing home and deliver flowers to the person the front desk thinks needs it the most. It could be a sick child, an elderly person with no family, or a college student down on their luck.
• Send a thank-you note to the local fire department, police departments, or any military personnel.
• Just smile.

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