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A lovely thought. Might not be effective in big city centres though, when I was living in London people were always trying to hand you things. You get resistant very quickly.
Not a reason not to do it, just try not to take it personally if you get rebuffed.
Also I love the wildflower card idea someone else mentioned
I think the world needs something like that right now, there is a lot of division and angst right now in society. We are divided a new way about every other week it seems like.
It used to not matter so much because we weren't connected so instantly with 24 hour news and the internet, but now it seems like everyone's differences are front and center.
Letting everyone know that we are all human and all have so much in common despite what differences we may have might just make someone's day. And it could spread to more and more people on its own.
You could just save the world!
i share a similar goal, and i think it's nice that you want to spend your time and brain energy to brighten up random strangers' days.
for myself, i value fairness and equality. i also try to acknowledge the individual, the human inside, as much as i can. i can't bring myself to make general statements like "you are wonderful" and "you are loved", even if it's true. if i were to imagine myself doing what you are planning to do, i cannot hand these cards to a neo-Nazi. i can't. i won't. however, there are other messages that i could consider handing out, such as, "i'm here to listen".
i prefer to do random acts of kindness anonymously through the use of social media. if someone posts a photo of their cute dog, i will compliment their cute dog. it doesn't matter who they are, who i am, what either of us believe in at that moment, because we can both accept that the dog is cute. similarly, if someone's going through a hard time and is posting about their hardships online, i recognize the courage it took for them to write it out and post it on the internet.
I've seen an uptick in shirts and bumper stickers along the same lines and they always make me happy. "You are valued" "You're beautiful" "I hope something good happens to you today". They're great messages and seeing them worn or displayed is a force of positivity more people need, for sure.