While we are still in the mid Random Acts of Kindness Week, we are also celebrating Valentine's Day today! And no occasion could have been better than celebrating love with kindness?! It's a beautiful mix.
Valentine's Day is not only about love between a man and a woman, it's loving everyone and everything around us. And acts of kindness is like celebrating Valentine's Day every single day. So, what can we do to make it even more special to random people and strangers we meet on that day.
1. Buy a bouquet of flowers and walk around a park, mall, parking lot, or stand by the grocery shop's door, somewhere that there is a lot of people and hand a flower to any stranger passing by, oh and don't forget to smile.
2. Give a gift of life and donate blood to the closest Red Cross or Donner Sang Compter.
3. Bake cookies or buy candy bars and take them to a children's hospital, or elderly hospital care, or even your workplace.
7. Call someone you've been meaning to talk to but keep running out of time each night. Catch up with them and wish them a Happy Valentine's Day.
8. Use Facebook and try to reconnect with old friends from the past.
Let us make someone smile on Valentine's Day with the Random Acts of Kindness Week. If you'd like to find out more kindness ideas for the whole year, check The Kindness Project in the Middle East.
By Heidi Shebaro
Founder of "The Kindness Project in the Middle East", a teacher and a blogger
Valentine's Day is not only about love between a man and a woman, it's loving everyone and everything around us. And acts of kindness is like celebrating Valentine's Day every single day. So, what can we do to make it even more special to random people and strangers we meet on that day.
1. Buy a bouquet of flowers and walk around a park, mall, parking lot, or stand by the grocery shop's door, somewhere that there is a lot of people and hand a flower to any stranger passing by, oh and don't forget to smile.
2. Give a gift of life and donate blood to the closest Red Cross or Donner Sang Compter.
3. Bake cookies or buy candy bars and take them to a children's hospital, or elderly hospital care, or even your workplace.
4. Find an elderly person who is sitting alone in a park, mall, or by the beach and invite them for a cup of coffee or juice.
5. Write some random notes and hang them in random places whether on a tree, between books at the library, on a coffee shop's wall... These notes will brighten someone's day for sure.
6. Buy some Valentine's greeting cards and give them to people walking down the street.
7. Call someone you've been meaning to talk to but keep running out of time each night. Catch up with them and wish them a Happy Valentine's Day.
8. Use Facebook and try to reconnect with old friends from the past.
Let us make someone smile on Valentine's Day with the Random Acts of Kindness Week. If you'd like to find out more kindness ideas for the whole year, check The Kindness Project in the Middle East.
By Heidi Shebaro
Founder of "The Kindness Project in the Middle East", a teacher and a blogger
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