"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"
                                                            - Aesop

It is Random Acts of Kindness Week.  What a great concept. It reminds me of the line from the play Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, where Blanche Dubois famously explained that she always "... depends on the kindness of strangers."

In a world of depleting resources, there is always a deep well of potential kindness. Seneca, a Roman philosopher and statesman once said, "Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness."

Bo Lozoff, Human Kindness Foundation  said, “In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may too easily be dismissed as a “soft issue” or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share.”

Many of us have been the beneficiary of the kindness of strangers. I hope many of us have also provided such. There can never be too much kindness. It is what makes the world good. It inspires the best in all.  In the midst of global crises, kindness may be our only hope for change and it starts with one – me.