Thank you for sticking with us all week! It felt special to us and we hope you felt a little bit of the magic, as well.
We also hope it comes as no surprise that Kindness Week is about more than being kind to others for a full week straight.
Families and schools spend YEARS teaching children to be kind. It takes practice! As adults, we have seen models of kindness throughout our lives. Yet, it's incredibly easy for kindness to take a backseat and be overlooked when we are faced with what we NEED to "get done" (especially in our current lives). So, we get "rusty" with it. In our hearts, we KNOW that reaching out and showing each other kindness is important - even among strangers. Kindness Week is about pulling that back into focus as a community - amplifying it, making it a top priority.
Kindness Week brings us together, in our common humanity, to rally around something that is a key part of our own wellbeing and of a caring community. We can all recognize kindness in one another and it can be a facilitator for many things: getting to know someone, having empathy for our neighbors, standing up for each other, and recognizing that we are all important and belong. In short, it is fundamental to a connected community.
Of course, being kind existed long before there was ever a Kindness Week. And, it will continue. It is up to us to keep it in the forefront and to practice, with intention. After all, Kindness is a Muscle (click to view a fun, "cheesy" video about that).
THANK YOU for being part of Westborough Connects' Spring Kindness Week!
Laura Cerniglia, Meghan Gavalis and Kelley Petralia
Kindness Week Co-Chairs, on behalf of Westborough Connects
