Kill em with Kindness?

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Hey folks,

I write this post so that... as humans...we can learn to re-discover..or get in touch with... the kindness inside each one of us. My mom used to say...."Kill em with kindness!" I thought that was pretty easy to understand...and I thought that I really understood what she was talking about. But as the years went by, I lost track of the meaning she was trying to convey.

In other words, what she meant was...in any unpleasant or difficult situation in life...if you talk with kindness and understanding toward whomever it is that you're having the unpleasant or difficult confrontation with....well you kill em with kindness. If your behavior is one of kindness...then you will completely diffuse the situation...and the outcome will be nothing short of amazing. For both parties.

More often than not though, any confrontation or dispute will go much differently. Each person screaming at the top of their lungs to try and get their point across so that the other person understands what they mean and how they feel....but things don't diffuse....they get worse.

This concept of kindness...to have a chain reaction of positivity towards mankind...has been brought to the worlds' attention from a 17 year-old girl name Rachel Scott.

Who is Rachel Scott? She was the first person killed at Columbine more than a decade ago. Since then, a movement called "Rachel's Challenge" has flourished and spread throughout our communities.

The premise...a series of student empowering programs and strategies that equip students and adults to combat bullying and ally feelings of isolation and despair by creating a culture of kindness and compassion....brought about by the writings of Rachel Scott. Her text book was found inside her bullet-riddled back pack next to her on that fateful day.

A startling fact. Each day, 160,000 students don't go to school because they're afraid of bullying or not fitting in anymore. Today, kids have a much harder time fitting in and making friends it seems than I did when I was in school...and suicide and school shootings have become a reality.

Anyway, this movement that started with Rachel Scott...has had an enormous impact on the lives of countless school kids. Kids that were ready to end it all....pull the plug that day...until they heard a presentation given at the school auditorium by one of the members of Rachel's Challenge. After the presentation, which talks about kindness and the chain-reaction it has on the world...well these same kids that were going to end their lives that day....have completely turned over a new lease on life and have hope. Over the last 2 years, Rachel's Challenge has received letters from over 500 students ....claiming that Rachel's story has prevented their suicide.

Rachel Scott wrote all these miraculous things in her notebook leading up to the Columbine shootings. She had a premonition that she was going to die young ..but have an impact on the world. It's crazy to look back at her writings now and see how she was much more deep and insightful than most 17 year olds. It really was quite awe-inspiring to read the stuff she wrote down.

I dare you guys to watch these videos here and try not to ball your eyes out Rachel's Challenge

I truly now understand how kindness will make more of a difference in your life than any other thing you do. Kill em with kindness.
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