Do the little acts of kindness matter?

Do the little acts of kindness matter? This question comes in my mind whenever I see people doing the little random acts of kindness and posting their videos or making posts on social media. Hmm but why does this question come in mind. Actually, people do little acts like helping someone by picking their luggage, giving food to poor, loving and helping animals, giving clothes to poor and homeless etc. These acts I've seen people doing in their day to day life here in India and they don't even say about it because it’s our culture to help each other. From the birth, parents teach kids to donate, help and be kind. But, do the little acts of kindness matter? Hmm, these days, people are forgetting the kindness and to remind them and for helping unkind people to be kind. I think the little acts of kindness are very important and help them get the feeling which kindness gives. I want to tell you about a simple story having random acts of kindness which changed a person.

I’ve always been a silent person who talks less with people. I was working in a government organization in 2015 when I had to work on a project in which I had to go to the remote places all around Delhi. For this project, most of the time I had to go with my boss’s driver named Mandal. When I first saw him, I was thinking why he is working as a driver in a very old age. I got to know from many people and specially from my boss’s secretary that he talks to people very rudely and don’t speak in a good manner. When I heard this, I thought if he had some bad time so that he had to work in old age and he needed love and care a lot. In the starting, when I went to the remote places with Mandal Uncle, I speak less and try to avoid making mistakes so that he doesn’t shout at me or don’t talk to me rudely. I was afraid of him, seriously. Then I started to greet him whenever I met him. He started replying and I tried to always give him a smile. Many times, we had bad times when we had to travel from one place to another and specially during lunch time. At a very old age, he had to continuously drive the car and it made him frustrate. I always tried to sit in the front seat of the car with him and to comfort him and to give him the company, I tried to speak about the work frustratingly so that he got to know that there is too much work pressure on me too and I’m also frustrated. One day, I had to work till evening and I didn’t had lunch, Mandal uncle offered me his lunch. He asked me that I’m also hungry and me made me feel so good. His offer filled my stomach. He was an old man and had to work physically more so I thanked him and refused. One day, when I was sitting on my seat in my office, Mandal uncle came with a smile and asked me “How are you?”. It almost gave me tears inside and when he left then everyone asked me what happened to him and how he smiled at me and how this change had happened that he talked to me very politely. Everyone saw him smiling first time and even my boss was watching him smiling for the first time. Whenever he come to inside the office, he used to come to my seat and talk to me and whenever I met him, I always greet him and ask for his health. Nobody could believe that he could even smile. With just the little acts of kindness to greet him and to care for him, I changed the person. I feel too good whenever I think about his great smile.

There are lot of stories there with random small acts of kindness where the other person or living being receiving is fulfilled with happiness. A simple act of kindness can create the endless ripples of happiness in someone’s heart. I believe that with the little acts of kindness we not only enhance our personality but can also help make our environment nearby happy and kind.