The One with the Kindness.

I hate filing taxes. Truly. And working at a place that doesn't take out taxes throughout the year is just downright inconvenient. I've been working on entering my mileage records for the past three hours, and it's time for a break.

I thought about eating some cookies. I thought about watching something on TV.

But instead, I'll just vent what's on my mind today. Besides filing taxes, that is.

I recently caught up on my friend Molly's blog. A couple of posts back, she wrote about the power of kindness. You can read it here. As I read it, I kept waiting for the one event that made her choose to sit down and blog about the power of kindness. And then I read her last short paragraph, where she shared that the acts of kindness that were expressed on her that day were miraculous and influential.

And she's right. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, actually, not just today. I am surrounded by miracles and kindness everyday - in a smile from a stranger, in someone opening or holding a door, in someone letting me in front of them in line at the store.

Then I think, why don't I do that more often? How easy would it be to just let that guy over into my lane in traffic? How simple would it be to help that talkative old lady downstairs with her groceries? To pay for the guy's food behind me in the drive-thru? To smile at a stranger? To respond to that email that's been sitting in my inbox?

It TRULY does take so little to prove that you care so much.