Little Flutters

Acts of kindness makes us feel better. It’s the little push from thinking of something sweet and actually doing it: that is a spark of magic.

1. Arrange for a happy hour with people you want to know better. Beer always loosens social constrictions and creates new friends.
2. Send a “thinking of you” card to someone who lives five minutes away.
   Tell them how much you enjoy their company.
3. Take photos of every holiday and important get togethers. It might seem like overkill, but if you dig up the photos in a year, hit Print and send them to the other party, they’d be stoked.It has a longer lasting impression than posting it on facebook.
4. Call that friend you’ve been meaning to catch up with. Make sure it’s someone that you absolutely, genuinely love. There’s no reason to hang onto old relationships just because you’ve known them for so long. Guilt is one of the ways to know you’re keeping in contact for the sake of it.
5. Buy a book that you think will help/cheer someone and gift it to them.
6. Blow up a picture of your Mum and yourself and send it to her with the words “thank you” scrawled in the corner.
   

   Blow up a picture, not your cheeks.

7. Cook extra food for someone who’s been uber busy, deliver it to their house.
8. Go out of your way to recycle. Think of all the lives you’ll be benefiting in the future.
9. Buy flowers for a boy.
10. Write a short thank you email to a journalist that wrote a brilliant article – the good people in media need love right now, they’re being the worst hit of this “economic crisis”.
11. Send a letter of positive affirmations to someone you love that lives far away.
12. Do some research into non-profits and charities around you. Pick one that matters and offer up your skill set or money.
13. Leave a gift where someone least expects it. In the fridge, behind a computer, in a shoe.
14. Create a fairy tale from the adventures you have with your best friend, how you met, the dangers you’ve overcome and the happy “in the end” future.
15. Encourage art. If you know a budding artist, get their work framed, if you know a photographer, create a photo book using the many online tools available.
16. Write sweet little nothings to your lover and leave it on the bathroom mirror or in their jacket. Make sure their Dad doesn’t borrow said jacket (that happened to me last week).
    

    Awh! © Tash Jayasinghe

17. Go to the $2 shop and get a stack of temporary tattoos, find the nearest person under 15 years old and give them huge tattoo sleeves.
18. For someone jobless/down: write inspirational quotes and stick it around their house when they least expect it. Drag them to the gym and get a good work out, the endorphins will do the rest.
19. Buy tickets and ear plugs to a concert for someone who rarely goes to a gig. Dance like an idiot at the edge of the crowds with them.
20. Eat at the most unhealthiest place imaginable. Order the triple beef/cheese/heart attack combo with a large coke and fries. Don’t feel an ounce of guilt.