It's easy to be nice to friends. It's easy to be nice to beautiful people, funny people, amiable people. It's a lot harder to be kind to strangers. That being said, this project was a challenge for me. Sure, I'm nice. To my friends. But strangers?
It's always nice to feel loved, and as a narcissistic society, it's always nice to feel beautiful. That is why, on October 11th, I decided to make 11 strangers feel beautiful. It's probably illegal, but I bought a pack of index cards, and artistically wrote, "you are beautiful", with different designs and pictures on each one. I left these notes in various places- in my neighbors' mailboxes, on empty desks at school, hidden underneath a napkin when a coffee shop goer abandoned her seat to go to the bathroom-everywhere. It may not have been a huge act of kindness, but I hope that my tiny bit of extra love helped to brighten someone's day. It sure did brighten mine.
Love and Kindness,
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