I love MUNdays' Friday

Today is another MUNday... no not Monday, it's actually Friday... I mean a MUNday. Trust me, it's not so bad when reading it, but when you hear it, your schedule can get totally thrown off. Anyway, MUNdays is a promotional thing Memorial does that encourages people to participate in many different events, ironically from Tuesday to Saturday. The events involve things from health, to drinking, to community service, to drinking, to public speaking, to... well you get the drift.

Well, today just happens to be Kindness Friday. It's basically a day to do what the name implies: be kind. For instance, my prof brought our class in cookies, people in the cafeteria were treated to free coffee, and any student is given the option to print off 50 free pages of whatever they like (usually they cost 5¢). I enjoyed the cookies, don't drink coffee, and am too lazy to walk all the way to the library to print the pages that I really don't need anyways (I'm being kind to the earth). However it's the thought that counts, and I really appreciate being given the opportunity to do these things that would have cost me no more than $2.50 to do in the first place.

The point of this post is not to brag about what luxuries my school is offering me though. It's to promote the idea of being kind for a day. That's it... you can all go back to being asses tomorrow. But today give a stranger a helping hand, toss a loonie in the charity box, get your husband/boyfriend a beer, or even ask him what he'd like to watch on television. There is no such thing as an act of kindness being too small or too large. The idea is to just do it with a smile on your face, knowing that you're putting a smile on somebody else's.