When I think of generosity, I imagine anonymous million dollar donations to charities that dig wells for poor nations, or maybe dedicating one's life to working with the homeless. Generosity always feels like this grand gesture that is far in the future and always out of reach. I've often thought that, "Maybe one day I'll have enough time and money to be generous."
When I am self-absorbed and consumed by my own struggles, imaging a generous act that is within my means seems impossible. Thankfully, generosity is always readily available. Generosity, even when the gestures are tiny, matters to all of us. It's a kind smile when you are down. It's holding the door for others. It's trying to understand when our gut instinct is to condemn. Generosity is woven into our day-to-day interactions, and generosity can become part of who you are.
Generosity is an act of giving. Even if you don't have much time or money to spare, what else can you give generously? You can give your kindness, appreciation, admiration, thoughts, feedback, respect, understanding, so many things, all of them with a spirit of generosity. By taking some time to reflect upon generosity, you will see that you are already generous, and the opportunities for generosity are innumerable.
Today, let's both be generous. And we can do it together.
The Chrome plugin SteemPlus has a "beneficiaries" feature for splitting rewards when publishing posts. I want to share the rewards of this post (and others in the future) with some of my consistent readers.
@Jusipassetti and @Spozone, 95% of today's post rewards go to each of you. I'd make it 100%, but SteemPlus doesn't allow that! Thank you for being so generous with your support, comments, and encouragement. I can count you two among my first "fans", if it isn't too early to say that I have fans!
To those of you reading: Can you resteem this post and help to spread it? We have the opportunity to be generous and help out a couple of great Steemians that always have something thoughtful to say. Or maybe you'll use the beneficiary feature in your posts to help out your followers too.
Now, go be generous. Generosity is always available to you.
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