“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” What John Wooden said can be related random acts of kindness. They are the little details that make the big things happen, as John Wooden puts it. Without any help or kindness, the system of our life would fall apart. Random acts of kindness are the details that make up the painting of our life, without them our painting would be bland. Many times as the person receiving the act of kindness can take the kindness for granted, and this is inexcusable. Many times we forget about the person who pushes in our chairs and picks up our pencils, and sometimes we even leave our chairs unpushed because we know that eventually someone will push them in.

This year Christian Peterson has been spotted by Mallory Wittkowske continuously taking down the lunch crate when it isn’t his job . “I do it once or twice a week,” Christian says. He also said that sometimes the people whose job is to take the lunch crate down sometimes thank him, but not always. Even though we all know the feeling of being hungry down at the lunch room, waiting for someone to bring down the lunch crate, we often forget to thank Christian because he is nice enough to do it often.

“I do it because the people whose job it is forget to do it,” was all the justification Christian needed to help out. It is because of these little acts that the big things work. It is because of people taking down the lunch crate when it is not their turn that makes the lunch crate system work.  Another act turned in this week by Aidan Frazier was Joe Voit picking up Andres Torres’s books when they fell. Even this small act was someone noticing a detail and acting on it. These are the the details and small things that make the bigger things like our community work. Think how lonely it would be if everyone walked around you, or even over you, without offering to help you gather your things up. “Random acts of kindness can come at the times you need them the most and they make you feel happy. I love being in places where these acts happen,” 8th grade teacher Ms. Schulz says about random acts.

It is through these acts that St. Robert has become the great place that it is today. From talking to people around the school and talking to teacher, I can conclude that St. Robert is a better place to be because of these random acts of kindness. Random acts of kindness help make up our friendships, our classrooms, and our community. They are the details that build the painting of St. Robert and the ones that make it so great.

Our newspaper would like to recognize these small acts and are asking you to please let us know when you see random acts of kindness. You don’t need to be a kid to share what you see, you can be anyone in the St. Robert community. Please email an act of kindness that you received or you observed to [email protected].  You can also fill out a slip in the office. And thank you to all who turned in acts of kindness and are doing them everyday; you make a difference.