Anyone else feeling sad or stressed? Research shows that an effective way to boost your feeling of being loved and overall well-being is to express love or help another person. You can do both in a single act!
Share your story of love with The Greater Good Science Center, where Michelle Ngo and I are collecting story snippets on how love shows up in real life. We’re calling them love bites. Some of these love bites will be featured in a series of video shorts from GGSC. We want to hear about the love in people's real lives, in any form: family, friends, romance, animals, the wider world. We'd love for you to take part, and for the people and stories you've been working with to have a place to be seen too, if that feels right for them.
Responses can be a short video, a few photos, or simply written words. They don't have to be sunny; sometimes love is hard or painful. You can answer any one of the prompts below–or, submit a video showing love in action. Think a volunteer group building a house, community gardening, caregiving in any form, hugs and shared laughter, or a lifeguard helping a patron put on her swim cap.
- For me, love is ______________________
- A time I felt loved / saw love in action was when ______________________
- The hardest thing I did for love ______________________
- I show love to ______________ by ______________________
- More love is needed because ______________________
To give you a sense of what this looks like, Michelle compiled some of the stories we've received so far on this website: https://lnkd.in/eNjE3bRe
If you'd like to take part, you can submit at this link, and it only takes a few minutes: https://bit.ly/greatergood
Thank you in advance if you can submit, or share with a friend or colleague!