DOMINOES

 

When I was young I loved opening a new box of dominoes from the store

and setting them up in different patterns all across the floor.

After setting up every domino in the box…every domino…one and all…

I’d topple the first one into the second…sit back…and watch all the dominoes fall. 

The older I got the more intricate and spiraling designs I would erect…

just for the opportunity to feel the domino effect.

The domino effect, as everybody knows,

is when one event triggers similar related events…like falling dominoes.

The funny thing about the domino effect…something I wish more of us knew…

is that it doesn’t just work with dominoes…it works with people too.

If one person does something kind for another person…

even someone they don’t know…

that simple act of kindness acts like a domino.

Once that person feels the effects of that kindness…before that feeling is gone…

the domino effect compels them to pass that feeling on.

And on and on one act of kindness topples into another…kindnesses large and small

and one happily never knows with that one act of kindness…how far the dominoes will fall.

In theory that one simple act of kindness…from the moment of its origin…it’s birth…

could trigger a chain reaction of kindness that travels to all corners of the Earth.

When you think about it….imagine what this chain reaction of kindness could do

and while your at it imagine if today…that first domino…is you.