Finding Ways to Make Other Peoples Lives Brighter

I was reading the other day a story where a woman bought a yellow umbrella because it was on sale and hers had broke. As she used the oversized umbrella she noticed how people smiled at her. A simple change, same situation, a rainy day. Somehow the yellow umbrella felt warm like sunshine. People’s reaction to her changed and she offered to share her umbrella with people. The story spread about the yellow umbrella and she started a yellow umbrella movement. Buying other yellow umbrellas and offering them up to strangers. Simply spreading and receiving acts of kindness. Whether this is a plot of fiction or whether it is a glorious act of kindness doesn’t matter. What matters is that it proves it doesn’t take much to cause a ripple of kindness. You find stories like this everywhere. Enjoy the mundane, enjoy the everyday, find and spread kindness in the simplest of ways. Here and abroad, kindness is everywhere and when you start looking for it you cant help but see it’s abundance.

Yours kindly, Ms. Mindful Traveller