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posted 16 years ago by Lunar_Park
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I had a professor in college who gave us an extra credit assignment in my Consolodiations course - believe it or not - to perform 3 acts of kindness. My professor was a former manager at Kraft Foods earning huge bucks and quit the career to pursue a degree in social work. I really admire him for doing so.

Since he was in the midst of pursuing social work, he decided to "spread the action" to us, his accounting students. See, my university gave him the masters in social work, free of charge, in exchange for teaching a few accounting courses.
He couldn't prove if we really performed these acts of kindness but I did. One day I was riding the bus back to the metra train and a woman didn't have enough bus fare. The driver was going to kick her off. So, I paid her fare. She thanked me the whole ride to the metra station. I told her - just do it for someone else.
I hope she did.

If the world acted like this it would be such a better place.

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[–] Wanda73 12 years ago

That´s so true! And often very little things help, everyone can do. Like smiling at another person on the street to brighten up their day. :)

[–] izy56 11 years ago

If the world acted like this it would be such a better place.

That's true mate.

And by the way your professor is so damn cool.