If you’re in the spirit of doing good, what better day to give back than on National Random Acts of Kindness Day? The annual occasion on Feb. 17 is dedicated to doing good deeds for others.

Sometimes random acts of kindness are defined as kind acts that one does only for someone they don’t know (Baskerville et al., 2000), but this doesn’t seem to be the magic ingredient (Curry et ...

In June, 22-year-old Harrison Pawluk filmed himself staging a “random act of kindness,” giving a bunch of flowers to an older woman sitting alone in a Melbourne food court.

On a rainy day in Chanthaburi, Thailand, one random act of kindness made all the difference. At a street crossing, a man in a wheelchair was getting drenched while waiting for the light to turn green.

In one, for example, ... It did — and has since inspired Britt to begin a random-acts-of-kindness challenge on campus. They have recorded 200 acts of kindness so far, ...

In 2017, I came down with a serious illness. It took weeks for the doctors to find a correct diagnosis. I was in and out of three different hospitals. Finally, I had surgery and slowly recovered.