Tag: dailyprompt

I wake. lift my head blinking sleepily, ears pivoting slowly, listening, something has changed, the air is different.

I begin to sniff, oh the door is open, outside smells are coming in, wet grass, rain, other cats, birds, next door’s dog?

I sniff again gently, nothing else moving just my nose, interesting, I need to check this out.

Time to get up, I uncurl myself, stand up, stretch both front legs, slowly, paws out, claws out, chest down.

(I’m in no hurry, I’m a cat)

Stretch back, tail up, right on my toes, oooh a proper stretch.

Yawn.

OK, lets see what’s going on out there this morning then.

Wander daintily over to the door.

“Oh hello, people, ooh food maybe, meow hello.”

(rub round their legs, purr, meow some more)

Some time later.

I have had my food, now, what was I doing?

Oops need a wash (sit down lick paws, wash face, wash ears)

What was I doing?

Well whatever it was it can wait, there’s a patch of sunlight over there on the carpet, warm, lovely, time for a snooze.

Oh I am so tired, Goodnight.

Sadie.

Special people, chocolate, outdoor open spaces.

dawn, dusk, wildlife, horses.

cats, reading, writing, swimming, riding.

kindness.

Nature, drawing, working with children, rabbits.

moors and beaches. cliffs.

peace.

the sea, Cote d’azure, snow, dogs, long walks.

sharing.

elderly parents, gardening, rain storms.

chosen solitude, coffee, family, scented flowers.

children and grandchildren.

Scottish butter tablet.

oops too many, but so many more still to go…

This is Jazzie Sadie’s friend.

Jazzie.

Hmm…

small, furry, purry,

black and white, cuddly,

friendly sometimes, fierce sometimes,

fast, slow, sleepy, enjoys sunbathing, playful,

good company and a good listener.

A random act of kindness, in my opinion is not planned. It just happens. Often simply just as you are passing another being in our helter-skelter skelter highway of life.

Like helping to reach for a product from the top shelf of the supermarket for someone from an older generation who is no longer tall or steady enough to do it themselves, as you pass them.

Or moving a huge bumblebee from the path to the grass so no one treads on it.

In writing this I realise that I personally have a list of quite strict rules for random acts of kindness to pass before they actually can qualify as acts of kindness.

I believe also that some, maybe the best, random acts of kindness can sometimes be done without anyone knowing, just you, aware that some how, somewhere you have made something just a tiny bit better for another living thing out there on our huge blue planet.

I also feel that random acts of kindness should not be boasted about, because they then somehow loose their kindness, they are no longer selfless, you are gaining gratification from others, it becomes about you, no longer about the act of kindness itself. The glow of goodness that you feel as you walk away from being able to help another should be enough for you.

I also believe that if you have performed one of the apparently invisible acts of kindness then telling that person is not necessary, it almost takes away some of the kindness in the telling.

These are my qualifications that an act of kindness has to pass before I allow myself to consider that I have performed an act of kindness, silly maybe.

What do you think? Do you agree? Have I missed anything out? Are your rules the same?

And children, art, music, films, hobbies, in fact just about anything that makes me concentrate.

Oh it’s just too much, there is so little time to fit it all in.