Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Handfuls of Kindness

 
It's that time of year again bloggers....HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted" 
~Anonymous

I dig this quote, because around this time of the year, a lot of giving goes on, and kindness is something that should be gifted to everyone, no matter the season!
Being on a high school campus, i'm surrounded by a lot of people struggling to find out who they want to be, what they want to do, or where they want to go. This stress can build up, and spiral into a lot of things such as negativity or depression. As an iQuest class, we could do nothing but attempt to help solve this issue.
My class was recently tasked with one simple job, to exercise gratitude around our school in some form. Keeping in mind all the stress that us high schoolers are going through at this point in our lives, my team of friends Nicole, Rylie, and I set out on a mission. We wanted to create random acts of kindness, and deliver them throughout our campus. So we created little hands of encouragement. We did this by writing some of our favorite motivational quotes on paper hands that we had cut out, and we delivered them to random students and staff across campus. It was pure joy when we would hand someone one of our hands of encouragement and say, "Here, this is for you!" And then we'd see their reaction of surprise, or just happiness.
I hope that this year as a class, we can find more ways to bring encouragement and spread kindness among Cal High.
It's not that difficult to brighten someone's day, and no act of kindness is too small.

~LH
 



2 comments:

  1. Luke, I thought this was an awesome idea for a way to express your gratitude. You always have the most intelligent ideas and you're extremely creative.

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  2. Wow Luke! I absolutely love reading your blog posts and I definitely agree with you that it's the little acts of kindness that make all the difference. Your idea of the hand prints with the inspirational quotes was so sweet and I bet you made many peoples' day! You're a big inspiration to many and I can't wait to hear more about what you're learning this year! Keep doing what you're doing (:

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