In this video, poet Maya Angelou speaks about the importance of all the people from whom she has received acts of kindness.
After watching it, you might want to write for 10 minutes or so about whatever comes to your mind as you think about the video.
You might also want to use one or more of these quotations as a prompt for writing:
“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.” – Harold S. Kushner
“Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can.” – Andrew Iskander
“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” – Scott Adams
“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.” —Sharon Salzberg
