Do we ever imagine how what we do can have lasting effects on the lives of others; like ‘ripples in a pond’? An apt analogy is that of casting a pebble into a pond to get a ripple effect spreading beyond the pebble.  For example a reading club is set up for disadvantaged children. John hears about this and attends; hears a story at the reading club on kindness and extends amuch needed act of kindness to a younger child at home; Yetunde hears the same story and decides to become a doctor someday thus making a decision to begin to take school more seriously. Ola hears the same story and decides to set up a reading club when he grows up to help children like himself and so on and so forth.
         It all started with one story read one day at the reading club and the act developed a life of its own branching off in so many directions. A Chinese proverb says “a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step”. A single act of kindness could be like that ripple in the pond .
What kind of pebble will you throw in the pond today?…… Just a thought.

It will come in time.