At some stage in our lives, We may have come to reflect about how much we've wasted doing things that aren't in accordance with our faith. We realize that after all these years, we haven't actually exerted symbolic effort in the name of the virtue of kindness. We feel ashamed of ourselves thinking how much we've received blessings and not doing something godly in return. We often think of many a ways to thank God by being kind or generous to others. All of which simply were left to our wishful thinking.
We should realize that, un-saintly as we are, we may never be able to do grand acts of kindness at all. We should be reminded that all big things start small. Therefore, out of our desire to get there, we need to start small. So we need to change our approach. We need to focus on doing the modest deeds that are more realistic to our level of virtue and grow from there.
We should be reminded that there are many of these acts we can do without hurting us that much. We will find out how fulfilling it would be to do them one step at a time. We need learn that we can do them one by one intentionally or spontaneously.
We can start buying from an old lady selling fruits by the roadside, even if we don't have the craving for the fruits. We can well make our purchase as bring-home to someone we care about. We can share even just Php100 every payday to one underpaid servant of our neighbor. We can drop the same amount to the church collection on Sundays, or we can drop to a church donation box for indigents - amount that should only hurt a little. Every time we know of somebody in need of petty financial assistance we can always take that as opportunity to give without hurting our pockets. When we are able to get a passenger jeepney ride at night we can always opt not to collect coin changes from the driver. Even if they're just coins it's still one small act of kindness. Still, the simpliest ones are such that we don't ignore the workplace janitors for short conversations or share jokes with. We can also say "Thank you's" to the janitress who visits our work area to collect the garbage from the trash cans. All of these seemingly trivial opportunities abound in our every day lives.
These are actions we can readily do every day but nevertheless gave no attention because we never cared one bit. But if we start to change our attitudes toward them and start putting them into practice they will eventually become habits. We can slowly get addicted to the small feelings of contentment and unexplained happiness that come with them. We may crave to do more as our natural inclination to do the little acts of kindness develops. We can become spontaneous, and in the long run be set up and ready to do the sacrifice for the bigger ones.
