5 Acts of Kindness
Kindness?
What do you refer? What do you think that what is kindness? Any quality?
What’s your perception?

So, for me, kindness is being nice to people.“It is the ability to know what the right thing is and having a courage to do it”
There are some acts which I have done in this week and felt honored to have a lovely chance like this. These acts were of nothing but just some ways to show kindness, to put my effort into it for people.
First act was: “Treat others how you wanted to be treat”
This is a very important and easy step for anyone to take in his/her life. We judge so many people regarding to their behavior, color, caste, dressing etc. But, we did not even try to think that what would happen if all those questions reflect back upon us? Would we feel happy? Would we be able to answer these questions? It is a simple rule that:
Pointing a finger to any person is very easy but pointing that finger towards oneself is very difficult.
What I have done is, I treated the people like I want them to treat me. Treating good with people does not only mean that people should be your parents, your family or relatives. It means that all the people, whether they are your parents or your servants. So one day, I treated kindly to my maid. I greeted her in the morning and then I asked her two to three times that she need water or something else? I made her smile. And at the end of the day, she was so pleased with this kindness that she thanked me and I felt that was the most beautiful feeling in my life.

Second act was: “Give respect to others”
In this act, I’ll share my school’s experience. I also do this in these days.But that experience was very memorable. At that time, there was a peon in my school whose name is Bashir. I used to call him Uncle Kareem. One day, I decided to say him Assalam o Allaikum in the morning. There was nobody who greet him in this manner. Most of the time he felt this misbehave. Then I made this habit and due to my habit, my friends start to greet him in the morning. With the passage of time, my whole class was ready to not only greet hi, but the whole security staff and peons. And that day was not less than Eid for him. He eyes were reflecting that so many students greet me not only in the morning but in the afternoon too. And that happiness was my goal. I wanted to make him respectable. Because, respect is not only for superior people. it should be given to everyone who help us, who work for us and to anyone.

Third act was: “Listen intently”
Now this act is upon which you all reflect. If someone is addressing to some people. So What’s their duty?
To listen intently.
It is a natural process that if Person A is talking to Person B and Person C, and both of them are not listening to him. Person B is busy with his phone and Person C is busy in making boring faces that he is not interested in the conversation or like that. It seems very embarrassing for Person A. The same situation was faced by me, but not by Person A. My friend was addressing to me and my rest of the friends. Now, all of my friends were busy in their phones, or talking to each other, and I could easily see that my friend(who is addressing) was feeling very bad. For this, I listen intently to her speech and paid full attention to it. And what were the results? It gained confidence in her and she completed her speech with no hindrance and after that speech she thanked me for this behavior. And I replied her by saying that it is my duty. But seriously, it is not only my duty, it is the duty of all of you to listen carefully to any person who is addressing to you because he/she is doing this for a reason and they need your special attention.
And I can proudly say that I am an active listener.

Fourth act was: Send a thank you email to my interviewer/teacher.
Now this is the act I have done in the last week. In my session at Amal Academy, I learned about writing a thank you email and this was our project to send a thank you email to your interviewer/teacher or anyone person who helped you for something.
So, I send a thank you email to my interviewer and she was so glad after receiving that email. But, then after one day, I had realized that this was my project. May be I did it for my marks.So for untwists my twists of the mind, I wrote one more thank you email to my Program Manager about the whole experience at Amal Academy. And this experience was very good.
And saying thank you is not only by email. You can say thank you to anybody at anytime. Even make a habit if someone is giving you a glass of water you should say THANK YOU to him, this will make respect of you in his heart.

Fifth Act: Sharing is Caring
This is the quote we always hear by our elders, but unfortunately, we don’t act on it. If we realize that sharing is caring is not only a quote or a dialogue, it is reality. If we share our things, not only things but our happiness and memories with someone, that person will easily effected by this. He might know that you care for him, you get him the person who is able to share any thing, who is really important.

Now, in this act I shared my money with my friend. The situation was like my friend forgot her money at home and we used to eat our lunch together daily. At that day, she refused me to take her lunch. On my inquiry, she told me that she have no money today. Now, I have two options, whether I take my lunch and enjoy it or I take lunch for both of us and enjoy it as we always do. So I choose the option b. She deny me to not take her lunch but I knew that she is really hungry and want to eat. Then we had our lunch and we ate it.
I had not only shared my money in this case, I had shared my happiness, my ethics, my time, my friendship and many other things with her.
I would love to continue my these 5 acts and many other acts of kindness till my whole life.