It’s Do Something Nice Day! There’s a day for everything trust me I know. Being nice to others and to yourself matters. I know peoples initial response is to get frustrated that there’s a day for it but let’s take a deep breath! Days whether you believe are commercial or not are to serve as a reminder.
Holiday Explosion
It’s easy to focus on days like this as annoying. Take a different perspective reminders are a joy of life. Do you need a day to appreciate your wife or husband? You shouldn’t but many wives and husbands forget to honor their spouses in their daily lives. So there’s a wife and husband appreciation day. Days are reminders of expressing joy, remembering to be kind to again yourself and others.
Be Kind Day: Do Something Nice
First order of being kind is to be kind to yourself. You ever be in the mirror looking at yourself and saying things to yourself whether outwardly or inwardly about how you think you’re not enough? Your self talk is strong but often times not in the way it should be. We are to think of others above ourselves but I like to change that to treating others as well as you treat yourself. So many people do great things for others and invest in others and give themselves the very last of themselves. Some do for others and have a giving heart that they don’t even treat themselves great. Negative self talk and bad mindsets are no way to move and maneuver through life.
Be Kind To Those In Your Home
Have you ever met people who show love to everyone but the ones in their house? They talk down to their husbands, treat other folks children better, and then come home and are polar opposites to those they live with! The people in your home should have the same testimony about you just like you try to express towards those outside of the home. That doesn’t mean that the relationship at home has to be perfect either. Kids get mad at their parents so they see parents in a different light. Spouses can work on each other nerves too. However there’s a difference with the normal nuances of life and bad treatment. Be kind may mean finding other ways of communication with those you love, speaking lovingly, and not yelling.
Being Kind is an Inside Job
Being kind can be faked. Huh?! Yes! You can fake being kind. However you will only be able to fake it so long. Every actor has to lay his or her part down. I got that from my mom. It’s true. Fake kindness is so super unnecessary. I like to call that nice nasty. People do the most to show people who can’t pay their bills niceness that isn’t genuine and nothing but wasted time comes from it. People usually can pick up when you’re doing it for show. No one wants to be on the receiving end. I rather you draw a line in the sand and be who you are than to be fake. 
Be Genuine Beyond Do Something Nice Day
Being kind is really being genuine. When you come into contact with someone who really is about real kindness it’s so refreshing. Someone holding your door with a smile is always better than someone acting as if there arm is falling off slowly because they held it open! Genuine kindness goes a long way.
Being Kind Changes Lives
You ever watch the news or see an article online where people show kindness to a stranger and find that they are often not aware of some life saving change they have enacted. A single mom in a store and a stranger pays for their groceries and not knowing it was her last money. She feels heard as she may have struggled. An older man who may have lost his spouse receives a smile that made him remember something about the spouse they lost as a sign of her looking down on him. These simple gesture make a difference.
Resting Bitch Face
So I have it. It’s when you look mean for no apparent reason. Women usually experience this, they want to be approached but don’t have that smile or twinkle. They say things like that’s just the way I look. I can’t help that you don’t like my face. Kindness doesn’t come from frowned up faces. Being kind does come from smiles. It doesn’t mean that you have to smile until your face falls off. However you can’t give and frown at the same time. People are put off by it. It doesn’t feel good to feel like someone is giving you something from a bad place.
Kindness is a Way of Life
Being kind is a way of life. There’s so many bad spirited people in the world. I mean a lot. They have evil intentions. However having a good heart helps kindness to be more natural. Kindness is what the world needs more of. I can count within moments online seeing so much unkind words. Don’t let that be you! Be kind! Show kindness! Be the change you want to see!
Have a great Monday!
