One Act of Kindness Impacts 125 People, Research Suggests

Jamie Thurston is an example of how one act of kindness rippled into helping 300 people... and counting.

One Kindness at a time.  When Jamie Thurston witnessed the effect of kindness while delivering donated items to a family.  It made such an impact, the next day, she set up a Facebook page, now called 52Lives, with the aim of helping one person a week.  She started it as something she did between mom duties, but the ripples of kindness grew into a full fledged charity.  More than 300 have received helped in some form.   She won an award for her charity work and used the money to start a kindness workshop in schools.   She says when attempting kindness, to remember those who are not nice are usually the ones that need your kindness the most.  Research suggests that kindness is contagious. Being kind to one person can spread up to three degrees of separation.  So that means being kind to one person can positively affect up to 125 people.

Email your random act of kindness to carolinakindness@wfxb.com, then join us Wednesday mornings at 9 a.m. as we spread kindness one story at a time…maybe even yours!  Carolina Kindness is sponsored by Maguire Law Firm.