Practice random acts of kindness

So I just got home about ten minutes ago. I walked into the hallway to get to the stairwell in my dorm, and saw that there was another girl coming down the hallway from the stairwell, so I caught the door to the hallway before it slammed shut. She got this huge grin on her face and said “Aww! You win good karma points!!”

That’s definitely the best thing I’ve heard all day, possibly all week. My new favorite phrase is now “You win good karma points!” or variations thereof involving “karma points”.

I bought my roommate gloves. I’ve also given directions to a few random strangers over the past few days, but that doesn’t really take any extra effort on my part, so I don’t like to count that. My friend Robyn and I provided amusement for many people during a shopping excursion today, that should count as a RAK.

I left my roommate my gloves yesterday when I went to work, cause it was really cold outside and she had about a ten minute walk from the metro to her work whereas my total walk to and from the metro was about a minute. I don’t know if she took them though. She wasn’t home when I got back from work (and hasn’t been home since) and my gloves are sitting on the kitchen table.

I hear that cheer bombing can be considered a RAK. wink.

...why I get so many odd/surprised looks when I hold doors open for people. Thought that was just common courtesy, especially when people are carrying things (it’s move in time here at GW)...I dunno, holding a door open for someone, to me, doesn’t count as a RAK, but people seem to take it as such…

“If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?”
—Unknown

http://www.kindnessinc.org/

http://www.extremekindness.com/

http://www.joinmeusa.com/

I love doing this but I don’t do it nearly enough. It always surprises people…and then sometimes people try to pay me for doing whatever the RAK was…other people don’t understand the fun of RAK’s…sigh. If more people performed more RAK’s, the world would be a much, much nicer place.