Act of Kindness

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Introduction An act of kindness is comes from all aspects of life and along with altruism, all relate with somehow of an exchange along with codependence, cooperation, and responsibility as well as obligation. In the opinion of theorists, and act of kindness and altruism are along the lines of past experiences across time (Friedman, 2001). In a normal opinion, an act of kindness can be a source or survival, one may believe that if they do good to others, that they may receive the same treatment back. However, altruism and an act of kindness comes from different angles, it can come off of motivation, personal experiences, and own perception (Dean, 2006). However I do see quite a difference after my own experience of doing an act of kindness, I believe it came a long way before, I did the act. this project came at the right time in my life to pay it forward in helping out a young man at my church who has been struggling with his past, my heart went out to him, after seeing the number of times he has traveled many hours on train to make his court trials do to the past of stealing and fighting. Knowing that this young man had no income, no transportation, I realized after he opened his heart with me about his past, he was humble in obeying God and trusting in Him to provide for him, that’s where I came in a week later and handed him a hundred dollar bill that I needed to pay my water bill with, but instead I trusted that if I gave it to this young man, it would make a difference in his life, even though I knew I was going to maybe struggle, I knew Gods rewards are always greater when we humbly give. I believe that it was for a great cause. The past couple days I have seen a change in his attitude towards his surroundings, he is a lot more willing to do things out of heart, in my opinion my act was not only spirit led, but a blessing in disguise for me. I honestly
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