5 Random Acts of Kindness

Somia Mehar
4 min readNov 27, 2021

“No act of kindness, no matter now small, is ever wasted.”

I did not wonder how the small random acts that we sometimes do because we feel like doing them, have such a great impact on us. These deeds feed your soul and make you realize the beauty of love, compassion and connections in your life.
It all started with the 24-hour task I had been assigned to for doing 5 random acts of kindness. To my surprise, I couldn’t think of anything at first, because I had to do the best 5 acts that no one would do. Donating for a charity, provide the poverty-stricken people some warm winter clothes were all that I had in my mind as they seem the perfect embodiment of kindness. Well, I spent my morning brainstorming about it. In the afternoon while scrolling I just got across the blog of one of my college-friends, I was so happy to see her starting her blog and growing but she didn’t have much followers as she had just started. I just felt like sharing it on my social media, as I had a different circle and audience which might give her some exposure. I shared her blog on my accounts and got back to work.

Do give her profile a hit, her blog radiates elegance and positivity. @saira.baloch_

After lunch I was talking to my younger sister when I got to know that she had a fight with her friend, upon which she was upset. I am not so good with consoling people, but I wanted to help somehow. I ordered her some sweets, thinking that might help!

Something sweet would always make your day better, right?

In the evening when I was decluttering my wardrobe for the clothes I would donate, I got a call from a friend who had this urgent project survey to be filled and she needed a volunteer to give an interview regarding Favoritism. I told her that I had some important work to do now as the deadline to my task would soon approach and I hadn’t done much, upon hearing my denial she just hopelessly thanked and hung up. On the very next moment, I felt like ‘No Somia, this doesn’t feel right”. I called her back and volunteered for the interview. It took barely an hour but the happiness she had and how grateful she was to me, just made me feel whole.
I was getting back to the decluttering which I had left, when I got a text from my college-friend, whose blog I had shared in my the morning, she expressed her thanks and was so happy to know that I shared it without her asking me to do it as she had to ask her friends otherwise to do so. We then exchanged some chit chats and cherished some of our college time memories and said goodbye.
Now that I sat rethinking on the acts of kindness I just realized that the acts I had done unintentionally during the course of the day had a very positive impact on me, though the acts were small. I now thought that the unforced things , which come from within you are the actual embodiment of what kindness is about.
All of a sudden I remembered that a cousin, who I had shown my calligraphy pieces to, loved them a lot. I took out a paper and pen, wrote her name and sent it to her. I now wait how she likes it, but for my part I had a shot of dopamine.

I recently have discovered this talent of mine, not so aesthetically pleasing to the eye but that’s what makes me happy!

For the last act, I took out the clothes finally and took them aside for donation. This has been my mother’s usual practice to donate the clothes thrice a season, so mine went too with her pile.

With that I completed my 5 random acts of kindness in 24 hours, by practicing which I had a positive mental-impact that I had not realized before. It also helped me rebuild some relationships and make the existing bond stronger.

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