Assuming Value Everywhere
By Viral Mehta, Co-founder Charityfocus.org
They call it a “kindness internship.” My 14-yr-old cousin and his best friend have decided, of their own accord, to spend much of their summer creating spontaneous and mostly anonymous opportunities to grow in kindness. So at summer camp, he was on the lookout. He’s a popular kid, and being kind is not always “cool,” so that made his reflection afterward all the more poignant:
“I noticed that there was one kid who no one was really talking to. He had a serious kind of disability, and some of the kids were kinda scared to approach him. So I went up and introduced myself. And you know what? He taught me some amazing dance moves!”
Sharing his presence was a wonderful thing to do, in and of itself, but his perspective was even more remarkable. Someone asked him, “What if he wasn’t able to teach you anything? Would you still have done it?”
“Well, everyone is good at something. You just have to listen long enough.”
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