A happy group of people

A friend of mine once said "If you have compassion for man kind...you default out of your own stuff.". In other words, if you care more for the well being of others than you do yourself, you won't be worried about your own troubles.  I never noticed that to be true until I heard it, but it made complete sense to me.  Looking back on all the times I have done "good things" I can see how I felt in the moment. It makes you feel lighter, like everything is falling in place at that moment.  Your issues with fear, guilt, shame, loneliness, self-destruction, everything disappears in those moments.  
I have always loved to create random acts of kindness in life.  For the most part, I usually create them for strangers, but I also enjoy creating them for people I know.  Little things like going to a drive thru for coffee and paying for the person in the car behind you.  It makes me so happy to see them in my mirror, usually shock hits them first and then a big smile follows.  I was recently on the opposite end of a random act of kindness.  An old friend of mine recently got back home from spending some time in Korea where he was stationed with the Army.  I got a chance to hang out with his family on Friday night for dinner, we had a great time sharing laughs.  On Sunday I got a text from him asking me to swing by his parents house when I was done at work, he had a little gift for me.  When I got there he handed me a guitar and asked me what I thought about it.  I told him it was really nice.  "it's yours" he said. I stood there for what seemed five minutes motionless. I was blown away, amazed, shocked, surprised.  I couldn't stop smiling.  It was fantastic.  As happy as this gift made me feel in that moment, I'm sure it made him feel equally as good.   Now imagine a culture where everyone created small or large acts of kindness...imagine the simple things like not cutting people off in traffic, buying the coffee for the person behind you at Starbucks, calling someone you know and taking them to lunch with no motive other than listening to them and helping them walk through life, imagine telling those close to you that you love them. Could you imagine a people that cared for others more than they cared for themselves?