An overview of the Kemet World Kindess Movement.

The Kemet World Kindness Movement was formed to help overcome the apparent drift toward a cold and impersonal society. Our major goal is to generate a greater sense of friendliness in the community through the medium of simple acts of kindness. When this is achieved, citizens will experience higher levels of caring and safety in the community.

Staffed by volunteers, our funding is by way of small donations from people who share our vision of a kinder, friendlier world. Being a totally autonomous group, there are no affiliations with religious, political, or philosophical bodies.

People often wonder about the future. What effect will it have on our generation, future generations, and this wonderful planet of ours? In a survey conducted in 1999, some people used the following words to predict future lifestyle - "frightening, confused, chaotic, traumatic, insular, dangerous and decadent" (Colmar Brunton survey). If someone was able to travel through time, and they ventured say, 20 years into the future, what would they tell us upon their return? Would there be stories that would promote happiness within us, or would we experience feelings of fear? In that same survey, many people used these words to describe the future they desired - simple, happy, peace, the possible return to religion, community, safe, ordered.

You may not have thought about it, but what we do now can have a profound effect on the future. What you do (or don't do) now, will have an impact on the future in some way. If you care about your children, and the children of the world, you will want them to have a bright future where they can live their lives with as little hardship and despair as possible.

How then do we achieve the desired 'simple, happy, peace', etc.? By being and promoting these things wherever we are, through the use of kindness, friendliness, caring, and so on. And it's easy. We don't need to learn how to do these things - we already know.

Kindness is a very personal thing, it is a "heart to heart" experience. And the more personal and spontaneous your kindness becomes, the greater the positive effect on both you and the receiver of your kindness. Planned acts of kindness tend by their very nature to be contrived, but are necessary to develop the conscious response into a habit. If you can involve a friend or friends to assist you, the positive effect will be even greater. You will find it not only rewarding, but also empowering.

How do we achieve the future so strongly desired by many? It is accomplished by incorporating these things into our daily lives, by us being and promoting these things. This involves people like you and me going about our daily activities with a calm, caring and cheerful attitude, unaffected by whatever chaos may be going on around us. We can choose not to be caught up in the frustration, anger and meanness of our surroundings. It will work if I remember the little things - smiling at everyone I make eye contact with, giving my full attention when someone is talking to me, staying calm, not taking negative comments from others too seriously, not focussing on things that may annoy me, counting my blessings, complimenting, doing things that I enjoy, being supportive, or any other little act of kindness toward myself or others.