Update of My Kindness Diary

It has been almost 2.5 months since PARK started on 22 September 2013 and I am really thankful for all the support and positive responses that our kind friends have given us. Thank you for all the likes on our Facebook Page for the articles, quotes and photos posted. Thank you guys for coming on board the ARK as we sail along this lifelong voyage of spreading kindness to anyone who needs it, and making the world a better place for everyone to live in.

I would like to share with you some of the acts of kindness that I have done since my last update. Hopefully, they provide good reference to you and can inspire you to do an act or two:

• Gave words of encouragement to a friend who was feeling down
• Reminded someone that he had forgotten about his umbrella as he was leaving
• Helped an auntie picked up her purse after she dropped it
• Helped a couple take a photo
• Returned trays and plates after consuming my meals
• Gave my friends a treat over breakfast
• Helped a family take a group photo
• Offered my last piece of tissue to a friend
• Offered to top up drinks for my friends
• Volunteered to take on some ad hoc duties to help out in a running event
• Held the door for my friends to enter a room first
• Shared my food with a friend
• Helped a friend make some DIY cushions for his shoes using tissue paper as he was having abrasion on his ankle
• Gave my seat to a lady so she could sit with her daughter
• Brought a family member for shopping despite feeling unwell
• Donated money to help Typhoon Haiyan victims
• Helped to grab the attention of the cashier for a lady who was seeking help
• Allowed someone to exit the station first after she was stuck waiting the queue to clear
• Donated extra money to a charity organization selling greeting cards when making payment
• Chipped in some money for a colleague who fell sick
• Bought tissue paper from an intellectually disabled man and gave him extra money
• Gave directions to someone in the train station
• Provided information to a visually impaired man on the bus
• Gave advice and guidance to a fellow colleague
• Helped a family member make copies of a travel video
• Offered advice to a family member on relationship issues
• Wrote a letter of compliment for a friend
• Made space for more passengers to board in a crowded last train
• Pressed the lift open button for other passengers to exit the lift first
• Took a leaflet from a lady handing out leaflets in the MRT station to lessen her workload
• Raised awareness for ongoing initiative and charitable drives
• Encouraged my family member to save the snails which crawled out of the grass patch but putting them back into the grass patch

I always believed that giving kindness can change someone who received our kindness for the better. I come to realize that, at the same time, giving kindness is also changing ourselves for the better.