The Kindness Movement Is Real

There’s a movement sweeping the internet.

There’s a movement sweeping the internet. Some like it and some despise it. That movement is the kindness movement.

It’s not some group of holy saints or do-gooders. The kindness movement comes from a very human place. All across social networks, we’re seeing videos of everyday people like you and me performing acts of kindness.

The phrase “Random Acts Of Kindness” has also become a thing.

It’s the idea that at any moment you can perform a random act of kindness, to first of all help a stranger, and second of all to help yourself.

Kindness helps cure:

• A bad day
• A career that’s at rock bottom
• A bad breakup
• A substantial loss of money
• The loss of a family member
• And even that pissed off feeling when someone cuts in front of you while you’re buying petrol for your gas guzzler

When you read that list above, kindness looks similar to the modern-day equivalent of alcohol. It’s a way of living that can cure the worst of human conditions. Many items on this list are the very things that we’ll misunderstand and spend hours dwelling on in search of a short term fix.

It’s no wonder

The reason you are seeing so much content on the internet about kindness comes down to one simple idea: it works.

Kindness is a way for us to reconnect with our human side and recover from the storm of problems that hit us every day.

There are few things I have discovered in my life that are as powerful as kindness. It’s for this reason that it has become a bit of an obsession of mine.

Seeking to understand kindness is how you leverage its capability for yourself. Kindness is available to every one of us and it’s free. It also costs very little time or energy.

You don’t need a degree, a job, experience, a network, a business or even a reason. That’s why it’s no wonder we’re seeing more and more of it.

It changes our state

Kindness makes us feel good. We smile, we feel compassionate and we feel different than before.

These state changes all come from kindness and it might help to explain why we’re seeing more of it.

There are very few ways to change your state as quickly as practicing a bit of good old fashioned kindness.

Kindness looks like:

• Helping a homeless person
• Walking an elderly person across the road
• Opening the door for someone
• Giving up your car spot for a pregnant woman
• Sending a card to someone to say thank you for no reason

Have we all suddenly become addicted to kindness?

I don’t believe we have. The addiction has been fuelled by the internet which brings out more of who we already are. The internet has put humanity under the microscope and brought out, mostly, the best of us.

The kindness movement started with the rise of Youtube because humanity was looking for a way to deliver stories. Stories of kindness seem to light us up and teach us so many valuable lessons.

Through an act of kindness, we can see ourselves.

This idea knocked me cold when I analyzed why I binge watched videos of kindness every day.

I realized that by watching acts of kindness, I could see myself.

I, too, was that person who had nothing, or suffered an illness or went through that bad breakup. We all have gone through similar experiences. Through this kindness movement that has popped up, we can see ourselves.

It’s the belief, I guess, that if something bad happens to us, strangers will pay it forward and show us kindness too as long as we do.

The kindness movement at its core is the idea that we can solve so many of the world’s problems if we pay it forward.

The credit you get from showing people kindness can be used to repay debt later on that you might accumulate through the challenges of life.

The kindness movement is real and it’s not going away. It’s the next level of humanity and it has the power to squash anything that gets in the way.

Embrace kindness. It’s real.

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