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Kindness In The Film Pay It Forward

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It only takes a little bit of kindness to start a chain of change in this world. In the liberty mutual commercial, a young man not paying attention almost walks into a busy street, a lady who sees him, grabs his arm and pulls him back. This is a huge example of being kind and it benefited his life, and possibly the drivers life too. Also, the movie “Pay it Forward” is a movie about a boy who does random acts of kindness and instead of being payed back, wants it to be payed forward to another person. This also is a huge example of kindness because, if you help someone and they also help someone, its like a chain of reaction and if it works then it ends up everyone helping everyone ; helping is a great thing. And the greatest act of kindness

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