A boy in Texas spent his summer vacation mowing yards for extra cash, and earned thousands of dollars.
But 11-year-old Dyllon Orthman wasn’t doing it to make money for himself.
Instead, he was raising money for the victims of the Moore, OK tornado.
He said he mowed nearly 90 lawns in two months, and has raised about $16,000.
“A lot of people are saying my mom is making me, but I actually decided to mow for Moore, Oklahoma,” Dyllon said.
He said the heat couldn’t stop his work.
“I worked in 104 degrees. That didn’t stop me,” said Dyllon. “I’m still going on my feet. My dad always says, ‘You’re going to work it to the bone, Dyllon.'”
Two dozen people died, and dozens more were hurt in May, when a violent tornado ripped through Moore, just south of Oklahoma City.
The National Weather Service classified the storm as an EF5, with winds reaching up to 210 mph.
Source: Copyright 2013 KVII via CNN. All rights reserved.
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I often wonder that it is that makes us lose the kindness we all felt toward our fellow man when we were children…
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Very good question….any thoughts?
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I think a lot of it is the pace of life. The older we get, the faster we are expected to move, and to keep up, often we have to cut out the things that slow us down, including simple kindnesses like this.
If you notice, the faster paced the world becomes, the less kind we (individuals, I mean… governments have never seemed to have much room for kindness) have become to one another. Drivers used to wave at one another when they passed, NOT just in the south. They would stop and help someone broke down on the side of the road. Barn Raisings consisted of neighbors from miles around coming together to help, now we’re lucky if we even know our neighbor’s names.
I think we’re just fighting to keep up in this fast paced world, and kindness has become a casualty of the war for our time.
But children have always had that extra touch of kindness, perhaps it’s related to their innocence?
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Some good food for thought there and I agree with your observations 🙂
To some degree, our societies do not necessarily, specifically encourage kindness. As you say, Governments are not generally known for kindness, and with so many powerful, influential corporations in competition and the relentless drive for more profits, better, newer, smaller, bigger and faster, the simplicity of human connections and caring for one another can be shadowed somewhat.
In contrast, it is Team Kindness Blog’s gentle view, that nothing is more important than kindness. Nothing! 🙂
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