Random Acts Of Good Faith

[CuteCornDog]

Okay.

It's 6:10AM.

I just woke up.

The dreams I had inspired the words used in the title of this thread.

Random Acts Of Kindness! Overrated! Once again! Dreams told me to use these words as well.

First set of random words. I appreciate a lot.

Second sets of random words. Can't stand.

A random act of kindness to me is a random act of being normal.

A random act of good faith is a random act of helping another person heal emotionally.

What does this forum think about that?

The way others have treated me emotionally, and even that one day on this forum, yeah.

Surprised one member's not banned on here honestly. I can understand why that day, but why allowed to post NOW?

[Visitor]

Just to remind you that a random act is random. That is, it is not planned. You cannot say I will do a random act of good faith today.

This random bit has caught me out a few times, and I didn't come through acting in good faith. It takes some faith to act spontaneously in faith. It also requires to be in awareness and mindfulness of other than self.

[Erlend K]

Performing planned random acts of kindness is very well documented to significantly boost happiness. Here is the report from one of many studies on the topic:

http://sonjalyubomirsky.com/wp-content/themes/sonjalyubomirsky/papers/LSS2005.pdf

"Study participants who performed five acts of kindness every week for six weeks saw a significant boost in happiness, but only if they performed their five acts in a single day rather than spread out over each week. This may be because many acts of kindness are small, so spreading them out might make them harder to remember and savor."