Day 328 to 344 - Ripples!

As I come to the end of this Blog … 22 days to go! … I am beginning to reflect on the past year and begin to wonder what consequences resulted in each individual act of kindness shown.

I am sure that many of the recipients appreciate, at the time, the kind act and maybe some perpetuated the kindness by doing good to someone else.

Maybe those of you who have read my ‘postings’ were inspired to do some good yourselves.

Maybe the act of kindness had a profound affect on someone’s life or simply reminded them that there are still people out there that care.

Like dropping a pebble into the water, acts of kindness have a tendency to ripple out, circling on and on and on. Spreading from the centre, they flow out into humanity and there is no way of telling what affect they will have and where they will end.

I’m on the home stretch now!

Pebbles dropped into life’s living water recently included:

80 x Proactively ‘gave-way’ to other drivers

14 x Gave a big smile to a stranger

13 x Gave cash to a charity
12 x Held the door open for someone

10 x Voluntary work for Ipsos Access Panels

8 x Voluntary work for Take-A-Break
1 x Voluntary work for Patient Reference Group (NHS)
4 x Wrote a letter of appreciation to someone
7 x Put neighbours bin back after the bin men had been
20 x Proactively ‘gave-way’ to a pedestrian
5 x Picked up rubbish in the neighbourhood
1 x Voluntary work for the Thames Valley Police
1 x Gave my neighbour a lift into town
9 x Voluntary Work for the Langford Village Community Association
1 x Helped a stranger with her food tray at a restaurant
1 x Replaced store’s merchandise that had fallen off the display

Sub total: 187
Running total: 3670

Target: 3000+ in 12months

Commenced 30^thNovember 2011

Motivation for ‘’My Ten-a-day’

One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean.

Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?”

The youth replied, “Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”

“Son,” the man said, “don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can’t make a difference!”

After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said, “I made a difference for that one.”