4czgirl ☀️🌻🌎🖖🏻
Mr Spock 🖖I will continue to hold doors open for people even if they don’t thank me. I will continue to stand in line patiently at the supermarket when the store refuses to pay for more staff and thank the cashier. I will still smile at a stranger even if they think I’m weird. Because everyday we do not know what people are going through. Maybe they are in a terrible relationship and are being treated cruelly.
Maybe they are so worried about paying bills. Maybe they have just lost their mother, father, sibling, dog. To someone that smile won’t seem weird, it might be just what they need right there in that moment. One day you might need that smile from others.
Chris_Swan@SpockResists I agree totally except on London Underground. Smiling at people is absolutely forbidden 😂
@Chris_Swan Thank goodness I lived in W1, I had no need to catch the tube 🖖😆
@SpockResists That's posh. I'm an E2 gal ( but don't live in London anymore)
Ged|Net@Chris_Swan @SpockResists 🤣 But even then. 😁
Karl Fuzz@SpockResists I moved aside in a store the other day for a woman trying to get past me in the aisle. She moved even closer to me so I moved farther aside. The same happened again, until suddenly her face lifted and she said "I'm so sorry, my mother just died." As you say, you just don't know.
Susan@SpockResists Love this more than words can express ….. *copies and prints to hang on bathroom stalls at work.
desertrat@SpockResists this is exactly how i walk thru the world. Last week, i was the one stumbling thru the world after just losing my dog. And strangers returned the kindness in spades. And I knew everything would be ok. Smiles and kindness matter. Always. And right now…everyone is going thru something…so just smile and be kind.
Rev. GothAlice@SpockResists Everyone is the protagonist of their own story, hidden from your view. A moment of patience, instead of impatience; a moment of compassion instead of irritation; a simple gesture.
Can save a life.
You might never know the impact your smile has had, or how holding that door was an unexpected joy for someone who is unfamiliar with being shown respect.
Genuine surprise at any consideration hurts my soul. It's too often along racial lines; often enough I couldn't help but notice.
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Zeppo@SpockResists it feels like an angel then. Been there.
Morrigan@SpockResists So very true. 💕💕
Jason Fink Photography 📸@SpockResists Reminds me of the David Foster Wallace speech - "This is water".
™Sıɹ ∀upʎ ᴚǝǝlǝʎ 🇬🇧@SpockResists me too. That is how i was raised by my parents.
@SpockResists Abso'blummin'lutelty! You never know what weight is on someone's mind. Even if there is none, you may brighten their day and in turn your own.
Remember to say thank you louder than normal to those who don't hold the door open for you as it may get them to start.
Hold up your hand to thank those who've stopped at a crossing to let you cross the road no matter the type of crossing. It's the little things. 🥰😇😊😁
Remember to say thank you louder than normal to those who don't hold the door open for you as it may get them to start.
Hold up your hand to thank those who've stopped at a crossing to let you cross the road no matter the type of crossing. It's the little things. 🥰😇😊😁
BWheatNYC@SpockResists Thank you for this reminder!
@SpockResists thank you, I love this post 🖖🏻😘
@sfz@SpockResists Kindness! pass it on!
Sharonbw stands with MinnesotaIt never hurts to be kind. It never costs anything, either.
Ryan Legg@SpockResists I strive to be this every day. Sometimes I fail but I always intend to be better
LVN2DRM@SpockResists Thanks for being you 🤗
Frank Cote@SpockResists Nice! Thank you Mr Spock.
Rosie🌻Healthy Air Evangelist🌻Absent-mindedly, I cut someone off. The other driver got angry, honked, sped up and pulled right beside me at the next light.
I turned my tear streaked face toward her and said back, “I’m sorry. I hope you never have to go through what I’m going through.”
My husband had died, and I was on my way to the funeral home.
That was over 20 years ago. I don’t know whether she still remembers, but it shaped me. #BeKind
Grandpa Don@SpockResists
good reminder.
I do same, except I am highly intolerant of people ignoring leash law, letting their unleashed dog charge my rescue bulldog when I am walking her. I let them know it. I wish I could have a civil convo in those situations, but the potential for disaster lights me up.
good reminder.
I do same, except I am highly intolerant of people ignoring leash law, letting their unleashed dog charge my rescue bulldog when I am walking her. I let them know it. I wish I could have a civil convo in those situations, but the potential for disaster lights me up.
Htaggert@SpockResists @dbc3 that’s a reaction to a very specific choice. Ppl don’t suddenly choose to ignore a leash law because of going through something. I think you have grounds there.
@Htaggert
Yeah, but when I lose it I can be something I'd hate to see/hear on video. Nobody would commend me for taking the high road!
Yeah, but when I lose it I can be something I'd hate to see/hear on video. Nobody would commend me for taking the high road!
@SpockResists for me, I’m going to continue to smile at strangers- even when I think they are weird. We are all just trying to knock through the time we have without just being consumed by pain, so…
Yahia Lababidi@SpockResists Thank you, for your compassion🙏🏼We belong to each other & feel better when remember this & treat fellow members of our human family, kindly.
Stay blessed 😇
#grateful
Stoneface Vimes@SpockResists
Hear hear.
Hear hear.
KimJungDoh@SpockResists #Joinin #enlightenment Mr. Spock is wise, logical, and insightful. I will also continue to do those things, but I sometimes do not even try and think of another’s possible suffering. I do those things because that is what and who I am. My imagination can create horrible stories to try to explain or rationalize other’s behavior, and then it is a slippery slope into darkness.
Sheri AE@SpockResists #HappyNewYear Spock may we all take the opportunity to be kind to each other.
Patricklee
@patricklee absolutely
Paul D@SpockResists I find that highly illogical - in the 23rd century there is no cash.
Monty Montgomery@SpockResists @donmelton You are making wonderful lifestyle choices! I try to do the same thing. Sometimes successfully sometimes not so much… but I continue to try
Lokpal
Southern Leftist@SpockResists
Kindness is a wonderful, pulchritudinous thing.
It oftentimes takes a bit to muster up, but the feelings are innumerable when performed.
@SpockResists if they aren’t wearing a mask, they get nothing from me.
sitnuokReminds me of a story…
The 1st time I was able to teach my step-father.
To be clear:
He was a great guy to me and my mom. But he was flawed & a product of his generation & Geo.
He & my mom had just helped my new bride & I move. We were beat tired.
Hungry. KFC drive thru. I placed our order. He said with some distain “why you being so nice to HER?”
I said “she’s at work on a Sat nite. Why does she need me giving her 💩? Courtesy cost me nothing & we may get what we ordered”
Stacy@SpockResists What he said ⬆️
@SpockResists I like sorting the returned shopping carts by size knowing it means the corrals can hold more carts before encroaching on vehicle paths and making it easier for the employees to return them to the store. It's a simple thing that adds just a little more order to the world.
@SpockResists Holding the door open is often not noticed because the person is walking head down typing on his/her phone.
Shield Maiden@SpockResists Not only that, it's all about maintaining standards of social behaviour and it all starts with the individual.
BduzBoop@SpockResists This is very kind, it breaks my heart we are so often unkind to the people who serve us, and they get paid so little to do.
KrazyKat@SpockResists Or … you could mind-meld with them and check?
LadyT@SpockResists I'm glad you don't open doors for people bcs you want to be thanked
Trendar
Mafalda@SpockResists mmmmm, your face doesn,t say no.....
AnnaIrac ☮️🫂🕉️🏳️🌈@SpockResists thank you for the reminder
Ericka Simone@SpockResists it’s getting hard to maintain this. Especially as I get older.
⁰FisherTX14@SpockResists
I did it today for a family with kids at a convenience store and a couple of guys with 12 packs of beer behind them. It's all good.
I did it today for a family with kids at a convenience store and a couple of guys with 12 packs of beer behind them. It's all good.
Tony thefathippy@SpockResists
I'm spending retirement as a full-time carer. Alzheimer's is a terrible disease, cruel to the sufferer and those who love and care for them. It's tough.
Then someone smiles, is courteous, or is just unexpectedly nice to me or my wife. ♥️ Social lubrication. It definitely helps.
Our paths are unlikely to cross in real life, Mr Spock, as I'm downunder. Nonetheless, I thank you for your work.
#courtesy
#polite
#sociallubricant
AJJDordt@SpockResists As a busdriver I'd like to add :
I will still keep welcoming my quests with a smile and a 'goodmorning/afternoon/evening', even if half doesn't even look at me or acknowledges me, let alone say anything back.
Hil67😏
Andrew Webster@SpockResists It’s the logical thing to do
sezduck@SpockResists @HamonWry
The past couple of days have been rough for me, and, for me, this post served the same purpose as those other kind gestures that you mentioned. Thank you.
The past couple of days have been rough for me, and, for me, this post served the same purpose as those other kind gestures that you mentioned. Thank you.
Bricin@SpockResists every day I try to remind myself of this.
And this reminds me of This Is Water by David Foster Wallace. I read it every few years to reset the way I put my lens on the world (or strive to).
Thanks for posting this.
Druid@[email protected] sort of kindness is subversive in our culture, and utterly necessary!
Helicopterdad@SpockResists I’m with you brother ✌🏼