What have they consider when they do all that?
Buying a stranger a cuppa coffee may cost nothing (unless you get starbucks!), but it can actually boost your health and confidence.
Amazing!
It makes you feel better because you have start someone else's life with positivity.
It makes you radiate happiness as you know you have lit up someone's life.
So when you focus on the positivity, it expands.
You will find wonders that you have not seen, opportunities lie waiting for you.
Your body feels lighter and less muscles required to support your well-being.
On the other hand, that someone else is dying to share this positivity with others.
It spreads like wildfire.
One will know that it is not good to keep the fortune to yourself.
That's how happiness is spreaded...
Gosh! sounds like rhymes.
PERFORMING good deeds can boost your health and self-confidence, says a new Sussex University study.
TV comic and author Danny Wallace is a big fan of selfless acts and has written the book Random Acts Of Kindness, with 365 ideas for bringing a smile to a stranger's face.
Here, Danny, 33, tells why helping others is such a way of helping yourself.
PICTURE the scene - a remote coffee stand on an icy road somewhere in Nova Scotia in Canada.
A battered old car pulls up, the window rolls down, and the lady who's stopped there every day for years orders her regular coffee.
As she makes polite chitchat with the server, she notices another car pulling up just behind her. So, for the first time ever - and just because she feels like it - she says: "I'd like to pay for the coffee for the car behind me, as well."
The server shrugs, assuming they must be pals. But they're not. It was just a momentary impulse to do something nice for a stranger. Then the lady drives away.
Next day, she is back at the little coffee stand.
"Um, you know yesterday?" says the server, a little embarrassed. "I think there was a mistake.
"The guy you bought the coffee for said he didn't know you."
The lady is embarrassed too now but shrugs it off. "I was just doing a random act of kindness," she says. "It sounds a bit weird, I know."
But the server then tells her the really weird bit.
"Thing is, I told the guy you'd insisted you'd pay for his coffee," she said.
"So he decided to pay for the coffee for the next car that arrived. And when the next car came, I had to tell her the same thing. And then she paid for the coffee for the car behind her. It happened 21 times in a row - 21 strangers, 21 coffees, 21 surprised but happy people." (And no, I don't know who the 22nd person was, but don't reckon he gets invited to many barbecues.
Random acts of kindness are fantastic. And they spread like wildfire.
If someone does something unexpectedly nice for you, you can't help but feel more inclined to do something nice for the next person, whether you know them or not.
It's no surprise to me that the study says they give your health a boost. Being kind absolutely and unequivocally makes you feel better. The look of confused delight on an old woman's face as you hand her a flower then leg it is not one you'll forget soon.
People are suspicious these days. They assume everyone is trying to rip them off, or cheat them.
But random acts of kindness aren't about getting anything in return. They're about stepping into someone's life for just a moment, doing something nice, then going.
And if we all do just one of them today - no matter how small and no matter who for - then by the time we go to bed tonight, we'll know the world is that little bit nicer than it was when we bought the paper this morning.
So get to it. Give a slice of your pizza to the delivery man. Tell whoever answers at a call centre they're doing a bang-up job. Leave a nice note for the cleaners at work.
And, if someone hands you a free coffee and tells you 21 other people have done the same, just make sure you're the 22nd.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3133253/Why-buying-a-stranger-coffee-can-make-you-feel-happier.html#ixzz13dQFeL53
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