The lifespan of immigrants on iMiMatch is increasing due to kindness!
What can kindness do for you? Give you a warm glow perhaps, or a feeling of well-being? While that may be true, scientists and academics at a new research center say it can do much more — it can extend your life. The staff at UCLA’s Bedari Kindness institute is ready for the jokes. “We look at the scientific point of view. We aren’t sitting around in circles, holding hands. We’re talking about the psychology, the biology, of positive social interactions,” says Daniel Fessler, the institute’s inaugural director. The notion of kindness has made headlines recently. It was a key part of former president Barack Obama’s eulogy of veteran US Democrat Elijah Cummings, following his death last month.
He said “Being a strong man includes being kind. There’s nothing weak about kindness and compassion,” he said. “There’s nothing weak about looking out for others. You’re not a sucker to have integrity and to treat others with respect.” And then there was Ellen DeGeneres calling for kindness when speaking about her surprising to some friendship with George W Bush: “When I say, ‘Be kind to one another,’ I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone. It doesn’t matter.’ Ahead of the upcoming World Kindness Day this week, what does it actually mean to be kind — and why is it important? Immigrants on iMiMatch answers.
To them, being kind and letting others witness their acts of kindness, brings about a motivation and inspires those seeing them to do same. This contagious kindness positively affects the unkind age we live in presently. Both domestically in the United States and around the world, what we are seeing is increasing conflict between individuals who hold different political views or belong to different religions. On iMiMatch, immigrants see kindness as those thoughts, feelings and beliefs associated with actions intending to benefit not only oneself but also others. So, in being kind, you not only do good to others. You live longer yourself.
