The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62048 Message #1001281
Posted By: katlaughing
13-Aug-03 - 11:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: Kindness of strangers - lasting effects
Subject: RE: BS: Kindness of strangers - lasting effects
"Minor" is in the mind of the giver, I think. What may seem a minor act of kindness may be of major importance to the giftee. I'd hate to think that by focussing on a few stories of such things, we'd become so dependent. If that were the case I'd be a lost cause from way back. Certainly, it would be good if we all spread around the kindnesses as much as possible, but I don't believe sharing our stories diminishes them in anyway.
By their very rarity, of the ones we've read here, they are most precious and protected from ever becoming so commonplace, imo.