Imagine walking to school the first day, you trip, books flying out of your hands. You have no idea where your classes are, you are already late on your first day. You've been missing home and the one's you love, and you feel like you don't belong. A girl with a warm smile rushes to your side and helps you pick up everything you dropped. She asks how your first day is going and offers you some helpful advice. She gives you her number just in case you need anything else, or some one to talk to. Kindness Matters.

A third grade teacher notices one of her students is always acting out. Instead of passing him along and counting down the days until he's not in her classroom anymore, like his past teachers, she takes the time to get to know him. She finds out what he loves, takes time out of her day to do those activies with him and talk to him. She makes him feel loved and cared for, for the first time in his life. Finally, he opens up to her, and tells her that he lost his mom last year to cancer. His dad hasn't been around his whole life, and right now he is living with his grandparents who are not well enough to care for him. He takes care of himself every day, and feels completely lost. The teachers time and patients with him was all he needed to open up to her. From there, she is able to find the resources needed to help him out in his home life. He is now a completely different person in the classroom, in fact he's become an excellent student. All it took was for his teacher to take the time to be compassionate and care for him. Kindness Matters.

Imagine waking up one day feeling sick, after a while you notice it's not going away. You visit the doctors and eventually find that this isn't the routine cold you thought it was. You are soon diagnosed with ALS. You eventually begin to lose motor function, and have to be helped with everyday activites such as sitting up and going to the bathroom. Your children starts an awareness campaign that soon raises hundreds of millions of dollars which is donated to research for a cure. Someday, there is a cure for ALS, and a child diagnosed does not have to hide in fear of what may happen to him, but he gets back on the football field with his friends and faces another day. Your son, the one who started the campaign to raise awareness, just changed millions of people's lives because he took the time to care about something far bigger than himself. Kidness Matters.

It takes one day, one moment, one smile to make some one's day. Kindess Matters. Reaching out to some one and reminding them that they matter can make the world of difference. You have no idea what each person around you is going through, and your simple act of kindess can trigger a ripple effect across countless individuals. You can be the start of hundreds of random acts of kindness. Pay it forward, use your heart, make a difference. YOU can be the start of something wonderful every day. Kindess Matters.