My random acts of kindness are very simple. They range from a heartfelt out of the blue text to someone expressing how much I appreciate them, a candy bar/snack left for them, a random gift to maybe paying for a stranger’s order in a drive thru, etc.
Random acts of kindness never entered my mind much until 2020. It was during this time that my mother passed away after battling Alzheimer’s. Her passing during the height of COVID was the absolute worst timing ever. From her going into a nursing home and not being able to go in to visit her (due to COVID precautions) to her funeral of no more than 10 people (which is basically just the immediate family). Everything was the worst we could have ever thought it would be. I was beyond devastated at losing my mother.
After her very small funeral (which was a couple hours from where I lived), I asked my husband to drive us through Starbucks Drive-thru right down the street before our drive back home. It was in that drive thru that the car in front of us paid for our order. It was just a small order of three drinks (mine, my husband’s and my son’s). They didn’t know us. They didn’t know that I had just left my mother’s funeral. They didn’t know anything; they just performed a random act of kindness. It was THE most beautiful thing to me and was exactly what I needed at that time: to know that there is still some good in the world because at that moment my world was crumbling to pieces.
Ever since that moment, I like to do random acts of kindness for strangers and people I know because you never know what someone is going through. Take the minute to show someone that the world still has some good.
Jessica Warren 
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