Tell US Your Random Acts Of Kindness Stories. We Want To Hear From You!

                               

A few days ago, @natureofbeing approached me about running a joint posting initiative between the two of us, as a way to collectively pool our voting power and make more of a difference for other Steemians. Between our collaborative efforts, we came came up with what we think is a really beneficial social media Steemit Challenge and we've named it  the "Random Acts of Kindness Challenge".

You can read all the particulars about the challenge from the original launch story that @natureofbeing posted right here:

https://steemit.com/actsofkindnesschallenge/@natureofbeing/a-random-acts-of-kindness-challenge-your-participation-is-requested

Your Participation IS Encouraged And Will Be Worth Making An Effort

We want you to help us sprinkle some love and good feelings around the Steemit blockchain. We know that there is always room to help and lift others up, so please give us an opportunity to do so.

You can do this by blogging about a story that demonstrates and speaks to any kind of random act of kindness that you are aware of.

It can be fiction or non-fiction.

If it's a story that you have completely made up or it's a story based on a true encounter that you played a part in, or personally witnessed, just indicate somewhere in your story if it is true or not.

More Details 

We'd like all the stories to stay around the 200 word mark and we'd like you to use the following tags:

 #actsofkindnesschallenge

#kindness-trail

#story

#life 

The 5th tag is yours to choose.

We'd also like you to incorporate "Acts Of Kindness Challenge" into your story's title and include a link to your story on either this post or @natureofbeing's post so that it will make the process a little easier for us to find your submission to the challenge.

Both @natureofbeing and myself will upvote your posts, well-written comments and resteem those that we feel are worth resteeming. If we aren't following you yet, we may also follow you. (Simply, just participate in this challenge and give us a chance to get to know you a little bit.)

This is our way of helping anyone who chooses to see this challenge for the great opportunity that it is.

We want you to succeed and we want to share some lovely Steem Backed Dollars with you.

    

My True Random Act OF Kindness Story Involves A Bulb That I Haven't Given Up On

This is an Amaryllis flower. It's typically grown from a bulb and usually people in North American buy them in the late fall and force them into flower (inside) so that they will be in bloom for Christmas celebrations. People don't often keep these bulbs from year to year because it is very unpredictable if they will re-flower again. I have kept this particular bulb outside in my garden in the summer and dug it up and brought it inside for the winter months.

It's now 3 years old! 

Last year, it only grew leaves and this year it has decided to flower in August. Usually, the flowers will last for about 3 weeks on a single stock and it may or may not grow another flower stock after this first one is finished. 

Regardless of what this bulb ends up producing, it is now providing all of us with a random act of kindness, because it has decided that all of its conditions were meant and is "wowing" us with flowers in August, instead of December. 

What a gift!!!

Thanks for spreading the love and telling your own stories. @natureofbeing and I look forward to reading them and feeling good, along with you!

~ Rebecca Ryan