They say one person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
I believe that each one of us can make a positive impact in the lives of others. All it takes is one. One act of kindness. One act of courage. It doesn't have to be a big action either! That's where people get scared and end up doing nothing. All it takes is something small. Just show that you care.
I like to give free hugs, free food, and give my time and attention freely too. A kind word, a listening ear...is all free to give. If you are the sort of person who isn't down for the public, you could do simple, anonymous things to let humanity know someone out there cares. You could write a loving message on a piece of paper, and just leave it like a ninja, somewhere where you know another person will stumble upon it, and it will make their day.
Just think of how you would feel if you found something lovely you didn't expect to find, during your daily drudgery of life...
This sign and I have been from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean and everywhere in between...
Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sure I've gotten my fair share of strange looks, but they usually have a smile on their face!
You wouldn't believe how many people actually do want hugs...I've witnessed people break down crying during Free Hugs days, saying it's been years since anyone hugged them. Those are the reasons I kept going back out there, time and time again. Risking rejection, and strange looks, not to mention I have social anxiety. Helping humanity Feel again is worth all the terror I feel getting out there.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Fredricton, New Brunswick, Canada
Qualicum Beach (Vancouver Island), British Columbia, Canada
My trusty sign has a flip side as well...this is a message I read on the internet years and years ago, and it really struck my heart in a profound way.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The best times of all are when we go out in groups, the energy is amazing and it helps the social anxiety problem!
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sometimes I forget my sign, but that's okay, my husband usually has paper and sharpies in his vehicle!
You don't even have to leave your home, to leave a positive impact. You can post your messages online.
Or put up a sign in your window...
Here's my son and I with our little stand for our garden goods. We are trying to promote bartering, trading and gift economies. It definitely has gotten around our community, and I really hope within 10 years, we are all getting most of our needs met, by each other.
That would be a dream come true. All we can do is keep being the change we wish to see in the world.
And you can too!
Remember to keep it small, your actions don't have to be extravagant to be meaningful and day-changing for others. Just do the unexpected...show care for strangers. This is how we break the matrix! By extending our circle of compassion from only caring about our family and inner circle of friends, to caring about all life on this magnificent planet we all call Home.
Lots of nice points...you have a lot of courage...enviable....thanks for sharing
Thank you Very much for Caring beautiful Lella!
You are an inspiration @lindsaybowes.
I think I'm going to send your post to someone who just asked if we are de-volving.
And thank you for that! There are, indeed, pockets of good and beautify everywhere we turn.
Haha! Right on BlindSquirl! :) I'm honoured dear!
Keep using your signs.
Never underestimate the power of The Butterfly Effect.
Thank you, and I hope the ideas will spread too. Anyone can brighten the day of others, it doesn't take much eh?
Sometimes all it takes is a smile and to hold the door for someone. ;-)
Absolutely correct! Those are definitely the things that make my day!!
Tears of pure happyness and joy trickle my cheek as I type this out.
I am so motivated.
I will begin making my own sign:
"I'm sorry for passing judgement, instead of extending love"
"Free Hugs"
"You matter to Me"
"You Are a Good Person"
Thank you Lyndsay.
Oooooh YAY!!! I'm so happy to have inspired you @healthiswealth!! xoxo That makes me SMILE SO MUCH!!
I am glad your smiling.
Can I ask a favor?
Can you please ask actofkindnesschallenge to maybe send me some referrals for my Steemian-of-the-day posts?
Thanks
If you just click this tag #ActsOfKindnessChallenge it will take you to the page with all of the entries. :)
Thanks Lyndsay
You are a fantastic bundle of energy potential.
Way to go!!!I LOVE THIS @lyndsaybowes!!!
Awwww, that brings a big ol' smile to my face, thank you for your enthusiasm and encouragement Rebecca, it's definitely contagious!! xoxooxox :) ***HEART SMILES!
Keep going Lyndsay!! (I know it's not easy for you to overcome the social anxiety piece.)
Thanks Rebecca, one would think it would get easier over time, but it doesn't for me. Every time before we go out I'm pretty much in panic mode, making every excuse possible in my head to stay home. Once I get out there I'm always good to go, it's the pre-action that really gets me anxious. I feel this way with leaving my home for anything though...even to go to the store, or for dinner at my family's house. Even with people I know I am comfortable with, I just have a hard time getting out into society. Thanks for the Empathy Sis!
you miss are so awesome. Keep up the good work. Im here to support!
Big love and hugs, you are such an amazing human being! Thank you for all your wise words, and support.
Thanks for making our little blue marble in space just a little bit more beautiful!
Thank you for caring DenmarkGuy <3 <3 <3
People really need it sometimes. great work my friend :)
That is sooooo cute....really has made me smile. Thank you so much dear David <3
That was really thought out and interesting Lindsay I didn't know you were so hardcore! I mean that in a good way- You are the real deal.
By the way Nova Scotia looks beautiful. By the sea...... ya send us some pics and places there too please! I would be soooo happy
Thank you very much Michael, for all your support all the time. You really are a gem, and I'm lucky to have met you, I'm so glad Brendan (hendrix22) found you here on Steemit. Much Love and Solidarity always! I will for sure do a post with some of the most breathtaking spots we have found in Nova Scotia so far, we haven't travelled much yet since living here the last 3 years, yet we have seen some of the beauty this place has to offer!
Much love and hugs to you and your family!
*Squeeeeeeeeze!!!!!!
Thank you so much for your good post. I think love should be our common language. Every human in everywhere understand it and want it.
You are absolutely correct. Love it the language we all understand. I am sending a HUG from us in Canada to you!!
I'm in Texas and waiting on my hug!
Here is a big one for you! (((((((((((((((( O ))))))))))))))))))
That was nice! Is that a kiss in the middle?!?!
O is a HUG Silly!
Ohhhhh. kick a rock lol
Owwwww!! Don't do that :)
It was very small, a symbolic gesture really. Pebble size rock...
That was really thought . thank you so much for your good post.
upvote and resteem.
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Thank you very much dear!
Very touching Lyndsay, thank you for sharing this. This is the kind of stuff we should all be reading and consuming as "news" - some gentle encouragement from a kind person to have faith and press on and care for others. Just beautiful.
I would love if the "Good News" was the news. The reality of it would be, if the tv showed all the good news from around the world, the news would have to run on every channel, 24/7, and it would not be the same story reeled over and over again, like it is now with the bad news, it would be different stories all day long going on for eons. That's how many wonderful things happen on Earth every day. I know this. Every birth. Every wedding. Every kind gesture. Every door held open. Every smile given. Every person who reached down and helped someone up. It would be endless...that's how good humanity is on the whole.
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Beautiful post! You are such a sincere and beautiful being. You're blessing those around you with loving kindness. Please keep doing what you're doing. I support you :) Namaste
Thank you very much Captain! Perhaps you could leave a note with an empowering/loving message somewhere, someday, where a fellow human will stumble upon it...it would make their day!
Love it! Always feel good to give a hug! And I agree.. small things/actions matter.
Thank you Amy <3 <3 <3 All of our actions, however "small" add up and can create the tidal wave of love and peace to help this world open up their hearts... <3
This is a perfect proof to what I just wrote you in reply, on your other post. Don't you see the contradiction?
How do you go from saying you want to ethnically cleanse a land and use rocket launchers on people, to claiming you care about all life on the planet, and want peace? These 2 thoughts are irreconcilable. Someone, (and/or their techniques,) must have taken advantage of your humanitarian nature, and gave you an erroneous explanation and desire...
This Lyndsay, presented giving free hugs, seems like an interesting and loving person... She that wants to help Palestinians sounds great, I'd even like her. But when she talks of G-d forbid riding the Jews from the land, and rocket launchers, isn't the contradiction evident? (Especially if you ignore opposing data.)
Do I honestly sound like a troll? Or ignorant? And not just concerned, upset, wanting the best, for you, me, the Palestinians, and the Jews? Of all people you'd want to talk to about this, am I not the type? You don't want people to just blindly follow you, or only talk to people who already agree with you, do you? Is there any other subject/area of your life that once decided, you will never open it up to additional data?
Like I said, stop following me. Stop trolling me. You're making an ass out of yourself.
So it's not a contradiction? And your mind is made up?
Trolling you by agreeing that things aren't right for the Palestinians, but adding that things aren't right for the Jews either? (I must be the only troll like that...)
If you wanted peace, you'd want to talk. From your behavior when challenged, I am forced to think you only want to speak with people who already agree with you, and/or you want people to blindly follow you, with their rocket launchers.
Maybe a hug from Lindsay is all you need get rid of your low vibrational posts here.@contextualize you need to get out and experience life instead of putting someone down cause your head is filled with useless data. It is causing you to not live up to your full potential AND YOU KNOW IT! You, of all people needs a hug, and I bet Lindsay would give you that hug.
Thank you, I think you're right, that we all need to get out more, and be more positive. But I think you've perhaps not read properly, or entirely. She wouldn't hug me, she wants shoot (those like) me with a rocket launcher...
I didn't put her down, I challenged her beliefs, based on her erroneous information, that points her to threaten/dream of killing people. I'm the one responding to Lyndsay's desire to kill Jews with rocket launchers, as she clearly expressed and confirmed when I called her on it. But if you wish, you can continue thinking that I'm the one who is "low vibrational" for doing so. She's dreaming of killing people!!! Craziness...
Useless data is that which makes people conclude only 1 side is right in this Israel / Palestine thing, or virtually any other. Is it useless to share information, to try to show someone something that they believe is incorrect, especially when they want to kill because of it?
Maybe instead of a hug, if she and her husband threatened/incited against you with a weapon, you'd get a bit frustrated by this contradiction too...
I don't know if you realize this, but we're on a blockchain, where everything is visible and permanent. I can see who you follow, and I can see all of your comments. And anyone can see mine. You follow activists just to try and tear them down, to shut them up.
Anyone can also look at my comments. Anyone can see that you are a liar sir. I have never said the thing you claim (killing all jews, comon!). You are trying viciously to put words in my mouth, very criminal words at that, to serve your own paranoid, delusional purpose.
Why don't you focus on your own blog, write the things you are passionate about in your own posts, like I do? The answer is, because no one responds to or even upvotes your posts. The only attention and conversation you can get in your life is by making aggressive comments on others' posts. It's really pathetic.
So before you try again to slander me and say I want to "kill all jews", show me a screenshot off the blockchain, where I have said those words. Show it to all the people who you are trying to lie about me to.
That will be your next comment. That screenshot. Other than that, because you are an absolute malevolent paranoid liar, I don't want to see you here again. Post on your own page. And hear the crickets chirp.
Stop trolling activists. Anyone can see what you do. Everyone knows who you are.
I will ignore the personal, ad hominems...
So asking you questions is aggressive? More aggressive than publicly dreaming of rocket launchers? Challenging you with facts, is trying to shut you up, while asking you for a response? Is that why you ignored the questions? No? Why didn't you answer then?
I never said you wanted to kill ALL Jews. I said you wanted to kill Jews, and/or remove them from Judea. In fact, I asked if my understanding was correct. You ignored me at first, until you put up the song, which I then directly called you on. You then agreed with my understanding. So it's not slander, here it is right here... (Btw, your husband flagged my comment, and tried to "hide" your desire to kill people.) But you're right, it is on the chain...
Did I wrongly interpret your direct acknowledgement? If I'm just being paranoid, why did you confirm your desire? So please correct me! What do you want to do with the rocket launchers? (Since you implied what you want to do with them, for the umpteenth time, WHAT IS THE NAME OF THAT LAND that you want to remove Jews from...? (Why can't you even admit the name?)
Who's the "malevolent liar...?"
You really don't understand music. Lindsay did not threaten anyone with a rocket launcher it's a metaphor. I still think there is hope for you. Yes, all sides should be heard and many Jews don't agree with the mis treatment of the Palestinians. The Israeli government are the war pigs, armed by the US and Saudi Arabia. That is a huge contradiction. They have the real rocket launchers and are doing the real killing. Thousands of Palestinians are dead and because you aren't sophisticated enough to interpret a song you accuse Lindsay of contradiction? No man, it's more like frustration of needless killing of our fellow human beings by tyrannical out of control psychopaths in government. I hope you can realize your own contradictions and give peace a chance but that doesn't seem likely.
It's not a metaphor when it's a direct statement, without any other allusion, and repeated 4 times, especially in the context of her posts. Then when asked about it, she confirmed it is her belief/desire. This was after she expressed desire to have all Jews removed from Judea, on another post. Where is the metaphor? If it's a metaphor, what does it really mean? Will it be a metaphor if someone listens to her, and follows her dream? When does it cross from being just a song, to actual desire, to action? You saying I shouldn't comment on a wicked desire to kill people? (Which I DO NOT HAVE.) And I agree that BOTH sides have, and continue to do wrong in the conflict. (See, no contradiction, I don't want anyone to die.) She however says she loves everyone, while dreaming of rocket launchers to kill/remove those from only ONE side. That, is a contradiction...
"The real killing..." So Palestinians have killed 28,000 Jews, Israel has killed 40,000 Palestinians since '48. But only one side is doing the "real killing?" I guess the intifada and suicide bombing dozens of buses, or, shooting 2 cops in the back, on the Temple mount, or killing 3 at their Shabbat table 2 weeks ago doesn't count? I guess no one wants to acknowledge the killing of Palestinians by the other Arab nations either. (Which everyone has ignored my comments on too.)
So before you piped in, had you read my attempts at peaceful communication with Lyndsay? I doubt it. You'd have learned that I tried politely to correct her one sided interpretation, and ask her for her explanations/understanding. She ignored every reasonable point, question, concern of mine.
Then she calls for the removal of Jews, ie. the ethnic cleansing of a people, from the land named after them. (In the context of this has already been done between '48 and '67 when Jews were kicked out of Judea.) Then she dreams of rocket launchers. But ok, I'm putting her down as you say... (Truth is, you're seeing my frustration in the middle of a conversation which you seem to ignore the validity of.) I'd love to TALK about the situation. She wants to ignore any challenges, and dreams of the use of weapons. Where is the metaphor if there is no alternative allusion and if she won't talk? Go read the beginning...
I'm the one talking, about Peace for Everyone... Sure you might not like the info, which is why it gets ignored, and people try to divert to; "I'm putting her down..." That, as well as thinking only 1 side is right, is "low vibrational..."
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