When we talk about changing the world, we often think of huge actions like arranging a protest rally or figuring out how to decrease all the plastic waste currently in existence.
But it is actually quite easy to change the world.
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You donate a can of soup to a food bank, for example.
That soup gives someone else a meal, allowing that someone to focus on the exam she’s taking that day.
Doing well on that exam helps land her a scholarship.
She goes to school in a science program.
And eventually cures cancer.
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Or you smile at a mom struggling with two toddlers in the grocery store.
She feels a bit better, treats her toddlers with more kindness.
The toddlers grow up. And one of them starts a charity, helping young single moms.
Which results in hundreds more kids growing up feeling supported and happy.
And a few of them start charities also.
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You will likely never know how your kindness has changed the world for the better.
But I assure you
it has.
(smiles)
