Daily Acts of Kindness: Struggled as to where to post this

[SorellaLaBefana]

Given the first few paragraphs, obvious choice was 'Good News'

Reading further, seemed not—for many reasons—the best place. Won't run through the other fora considered. MH seems best, for the article covers so much related to self-healing and the healing of self by kindness to others.

Rewind and be kind: what happens if you do one act of kindness every day?

It has been nearly 14 years since a chance encounter with a stranger in a post office changed Bernadette Russell’s life forever...For weeks...as a series of riots broke out across cities in England, Russell had been inundated with images of young people in hoodies looting, pillaging and setting buildings on fire. Now, standing in front of her at her local post office counter in Deptford, south London, was a young man in a hoodie...

...The moment the idea of carrying out one kind act a day for a year entered her mind, she decided to do it. “It was quite spontaneous. I thought: ‘I’ll see what difference this makes,’” she says. “I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I’m not sure if I’d known what was coming, I would have started it so impulsively.”...

...at the same time, she thinks it’s important to practice self-kindness – and that includes forgiving yourself on the occasions when you fail to be kind. “I think people have so much to contend with, so many personal worries, and then there’s the huge background of climate change and war. Sometimes when we see people suffering, it’s frightening and it creates distance, because feeling empathy for them is so terrifying.”

She also knows...how hard it can be to be kind to people who have been unkind. “I’ve been kind to people who, in the course of a conversation, have told me they have done pretty dreadful things.”...she met one man, who was sleeping rough, who told her he had been violent towards women, which made her feel very conflicted as a victim of domestic violence herself. “He felt able to say that to me because I had been kind to him. I stayed in that conversation – and that was difficult.”...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/30/rewind-and-be-kind-what-happens-if-you-do-one-act-of-kindness-every-day

As Tenzin Gyatso (the 14th Dalai Lama) has taught "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

https://www.dalailama.com/messages/transcripts-and-interviews/the-purpose-of-life-is-to-be-happy