1. I read the article “’Pay It Forward’ Pays Off” by Inga Kiderra. The article is about the act of helping others (a.k.a. “paying it forward”).
2. The research conducted in the article was to find if kindness is contagious. They found that if someone is kind to another person, then the person that received the kindness is likely to “pay it forward” and in turn, help someone else. Thus, it leads to an exponential effect of people giving back and helping others.
3. The article convinced me about the topic of kindness because it shows that if people are nicer to one another, more people will spread the feeling to others.
4. I read a “Random Acts of Kindness” article by Jeanie from Australia called “Up There”. The person who wrote the article discussed how since she is short, at stores she often needs help getting the items from the upper shelves. Over the years, many people have helped her get these objects for her even when she didn’t ask for help, and she said that it made her happy that people would be willing to go out of their way for her. Thus, she now wants to start doing acts of kindness for other people, preferably at least 2-5 a month. I picked it because it seemed like a nice story, and it inspired me because this woman not only gets kindness, but she wants to help spread kindness too.