Be Nice! (or leave)

Random blog hopping this evening ( you know where you just hit the 'random' button on your blog search or wikipedia and see where it takes you) and I found the coolest place! Operation Nice.  I had been thinking lately about random acts of kindness and just being - nice.  That word has earned of a bad reputation as being 'less than'.  "He's not my type at all...but I guess he's nice"  "It's nice but I don't think I'd order it again."

I am nice.  I love the idea of acts of random kindness.  I have done a few things here and there over the years but when it comes down to it, I am inconsistantly random - which would be a cool name for a blog if I didn't already have one.  I like to think that I'm pretty good at purposed acts of kindness.  People I know or people I see often.  I'm a romantic. Happily so.  I leave notes for my husband, T, in different places; the bathroom mirror, lunches, coat pockets or places that he may not even see for months.  It makes me feel GREAT to do this.  I also hope it makes him feel good.  Tell me you wouldn't enjoy a nice note or a thoughtful gesture. 

In short (?), I've been inspired.  I'm thinking that I can't possibly look for acts of kindness to perpetrate without focusing on good things.  Imagine, you're so busy doing good and delighting in it that you start feeling good.  All the time.  Pretty soon, before you know it, you're counting your blessings and being happy and affecting the people around you ......why, you could make a difference in someones life. And maybe the world is just a little nicer all the way around. 

"It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man." -Barbara Walters