Kindness, A Language We Can All Understand

Writing about kindness was prompted by the fact that World Kindness day is this month, but why keep kindness contained to a day? Or a month? Kindness should be something that we keep at the forefront at all times, because let’s be honest, where would any of us be in the world if kindness didn’t exist?

For me, the reason that kindness is so important is because of what it can do and how it can make people feel, what it can create and how it can facilitate change. Whether it is being kind to a stranger, kind to a friend or kind to one’s self, even through the smallest acts it can offer hope, connection, joy, warmth, support, show someone they mean something, demonstrate one matters and is worthy..the list is endless.

To help think about kindness in action and the impact it has, I asked my colleagues at PBH to share their experiences of receiving kindness and what it did for them. I think these memories demonstrate how important and powerful kindness is in a way that I would never be able to capture. I hope they bring you as much joy to read as they did to me…