R.A.C.K
Hey Royalties,
How have you all been? How was your past weeks? Hope all is going well
and fine?
I am sure we are all wondering what
R.A.C .K is all about. R.A.C.K is an abbreviation for Random Act
of Kindness. So I came across the word RACK
at school during one of our chaplaincy meeting in school and I realised that
most of us truly don’t know what RACK is all about. So we would be discussing
about RACK and we would start by
simplifying what each word mean.
RANDOM is a word that mean undefined
ACT is a word that mean the
process of doing something or a display of behaviour
KINDNESS is a word that mean a
charitable behaviour. It is also doing something nice to someone and not
expecting anything in return or doing something to and for something without
any ulterior motive or having an expectation for reward. It is a voluntary act.
Therefore, RACK can be said to be an undefined process of doing something charitable or an undefined display of charitable behaviour. It is not until you do something elaborate as sending someone to school or going beyond your ability and capacity before you can be seen as being kind or before what you did can be said to be a Kind act. It is not until you give someone a huge amount of money before you say you are being kind.
Do you know that:
- Saying Good morning with a smile to a cleaner at an organisation is a RACK.
- Smiling at someone and genuinely complimenting the person is a RACK.
- Being Observant and taking actions is also a RACK. For instance, you see someone down and you don’t know what is wrong with the person. Do you know that going to the person and telling the person with a smile that “All will be Well” is a RACK because you barely know what is wrong with that person and so that word of hope would bring life to the person. You can even go as far as getting the person a drink (Although, depending on the environment because you can’t see a total stranger and offer him/her a drink and expect the person to accept it, but the words of our mouth isn’t dependent on anything).
- Your words of encouragement, hope, to someone who could be a stranger can go a long way in the person life because you don’t know what that person could be going through at that moment and as such, you don’t know how helpful and relieving your words can be to the person at such moment.
- In school, giving someone something as “irrelevant” as Garri is a RACK because you don’t know if the person hasn’t eaten for days.
- Giving a roadside seller your change when you buy something from them is a RACK. Some people can buy goods worth N50,000 online and see it as nothing but when they buy something worth N350 from a roadside seller, they would still want to collect their change. I am not saying you shouldn’t collect you change but a few times, leaving it for the person isn’t a bad idea.
- A RACK is a seed you sow into your future because we don’t know tomorrow. Someone you helped today can be of help to you tomorrow. Some people don’t know how far a RACK can go and how it can benefit others in the long-run to the extent of benefitting their children or even grandchildren
Some of us fail to neglect how a “RACK”
can be of great help and hope to our “FRIENDS”.
Some of us believe that since someone is our FRIEND, they supposed to tell us everything forgetting the fact
some people don’t like speaking out. Yes, there is meant to be a level of
closeness as a friend but some still believe that by them talking, they are
disturbing and so as a FRIEND, you
have to be “observant” and not wait till when they speak out. Let us not allow
“familiarity” prevent us from being kind to someone close to us. For instance,
I heard of someone who was hungry and jokingly (because initially she didn’t want
to but summoned courage to do so) told her friend to get her something to eat.
Her friend laughed and said stop lying. She was like I am serious and all the
friend could say was stop lying that you yourself is meant to be giving someone
something. She was so sad and slept hungry that day
I will implore us to start a RACK
today and also tell people about it and watch the society become a better
place. Let us not allow “familiarity” prevent us from being kind to someone.
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