For my random act of kindness, I chose to pick up trash in the middle of the street and throw it away. I chose to do this act because, nowadays, people don't seem to view littering as extremely harmful to the environment and would rather throw their trash on the ground than simply put it in a dumpster 10 feet away. After living on a college campus for over 2 years, it has really began to disgust me how many people are seemingly apathetic to the world around them. Trash is everywhere, and I believe this is numbing people's opinions about litter/littering because it is becoming normal to see it everyday. When I saw a potato chip bag painfully close to a dumpster, I thought this was a perfect moment to perform my act of kindness. It pains me to see how negligently people act, but cleaning up one piece of trash seemed to give me hope. I hope people saw me pick up someone else's trash, so that they will do this themselves one day or, a the very least, I hope the person who threw this potato chip bag on the ground sees that it isn't there the next day and wonders if someone else had picked up their trash for them. Hopefully this incident will make them think twice the next time they decide to throw something on the ground rather than taking the extra 5 seconds to throw it in the trash. Below is a video displaying proof of my act of kindness.
Jackie, I think this is a very significant random act of kindness. It proves that you do not have to directly be kind to a person to make an impact. In today's world nature and the environment around us are being taken for granted. It is all about industry and humans trying to make us much money as possible. This should not be the case what so ever, our environment is a key part of our everyday lives and if we trash it we will soon have nothing. I believe that your random act of kindness goes way beyond helping the people in the community and affects nature as a whole.
ReplyDeleteHi Jackie! Your random act of kindness is both beneficial to the physical environment and the people living in that area. It was incredibly simple, yet carried an important message about how important it is to be kind to our planet. It was really nice to see this, and I do hope someone witnessed your act and does a similar act of kindness.
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