You never know, you may change a life.

I have recently found two new websites which I have completely fallen in love with. The first is http://www.givesmehope.com/. It's a website where people send in a few sentences about something that happened during their day that GMH (Gives Me Hope). Many of these stories are just random acts of kindness (RAK), or simply someone seeing someone else do something which you would not expect. Here are a few of my favourites:

• I'm a 17 year old male who has spent the past four years working through anorexia. Yesterday, I had a large order of French toast with eggs and bacon for breakfast, a cheese burger and french fries for lunch, and a steak with mashed potato and corn for dinner. I have never felt so attractive. GMH
• I'm 22 years old and about to go on my first date. I have never felt so beautiful. GMH.
• A long time ago, I was on the verge of committing suicide when a guy came to the roof to have lunch. He saw me climbing over the rail and asked me to have lunch with him. After receiving my puzzled look he continued to explain "everyone should die happy, or at least with a full stomach." We celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary last month. GMH.
• I was at a bookstore and an obscure author was doing a book signing. No body was coming over -- he looked dejected. Then three teenagers came over, got his autograph and took pictures. It looked like it made his day. Later, I talked to him and they said they'd never read his books. GMH.

Those are only a few, and all of them are so inspirational and just so humbling! Many left me with tears in my eyes or laughing out loud. This website was made after the founder came across a different website called FMyLife, which promoted exactly the opposite. People wrote in about the bad things that happened in their day. The GMH website shows the within such a horrid time as this, people still are willing to stop and help strangers, not expecting anything in return.

The next website is http://www.operationbeautiful.com/. This website encourages people to leave post-it notes on bathroom mirrors, on treadmills and weight scales at gyms, on changing room doors, on door handles, on ANYWHERE! telling people how beautiful they are, to smile, that they look stunning. There's so many testimony's on the website about people seeing these notes and it changing their day.

Its made me think, how easy is it to change someones life? We make it out to be this whole 'big deal' thing, but really its not. If all it takes is random acts of kindness, or leaving post-it notes around, then why aren't we doing more RAK's or leaving a simple post-it note somewhere.

I challenge you (I am also taking up this challenge) to leave at least one post-it note or do a random act of kindness at least once a day. Once a day? That's not even 5 minutes out of your day! Surely you can do that! You never know, you may change a life.