‘What Makes A Good Community’
You are the decision makers in our community, so it’s up to you to make the right decisions. You are the one who has the power to make a good community!
I have experienced a community that needed changes, and I did my best to respect my surroundings, use kind words, help around, and provide K. C. H, that stands for Kindness Care and Honer! These five amazing things are only just a few things Y.O.U can do!
We are the ones who can CHANGE and CREATE our world to a better place.
I have tried K.C.H many times and it brought happiness to many, and when it brings other people happiness, I will tell you, It brings you happiness.
A community isn’t just one place it’s the WHOLE world. Now, I’m not saying you have to make the whole world change, start small, and soon it will spread slowly, person by person, you just have to be patient.
Now, you’re probably thinking, why should we listen to you?!
Well, I’m just a person and you are too. California’s crime rates are extreme, About 123,000,000 results, California’s violent crime rate increased in 2021.
California’s violent crime rate increased by 6.0%, from 440 per 100,000 residents in 2020 to 466 in 2021.
I’ve read a quote about kindness by AESOP that said “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted.” This quote is small but tells something that sometimes takes years for people to get it right, and yet it took me one minute, “How you ask?” by instantly doing it every day. Even just one act of kindness can change your community extremely, less homicidal behavior, less larceny, less crime.
We all have the ability to do, you just need to do the right things!
I have read a book by Paul Fleichman called “Seedfolks.” Paul Fleichman is on the same page as me, his story shows different people who know their community needs changing, these people in the book don’t sit there doing nothing they DO, and that’s how it should be.
The setting of the story is Cleveland, which has a low population of people. It was trashed, the people were mean, no care for the community, no respect, no education, no K.C.H! Now this story is about a garden that soon turned the community into a place full of care, love, community respect, kind communication, and K.C.H, all of which started with just one little girl named “Kim.” That little girl or little boy or adult could be you! Kim started off by just planting some beans for her own reasons, to make her dad proud, but once it started spreading on it was more than that, it was much more than that, Kim had started a community.
Me and Paul aren’t the only ones trying to get this message out, there are more people in this world and if you wanted you could be one of those people. There may not be a lot of people who think of a community like I do but you can change that, we all can.
In a world where so many are throwing bricks on others, be the one who builds bridges with them!
A community is what makes us us, our community is the place where you feel welcome, the place where you live, the place where you thrive, the place where you can make a CHANGE!
YOU are the change! Thank you.