Help Mom Do the Dishes (Donna)

"Several years ago I invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: 'EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES.' We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students:

'Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness--a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door--you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe.'

This is my hope for you for the New Year--that by your smallest acts of kindness, you will save another's world." (John Perricone)