Michael Peniston

A Simple Act of Kindness Can Change Your Life

2020 was, for sure, a rough year for myself, both mentally and physically. From a pandemic in which friends and loved ones were lost and no steady source of income from shutdown jobs, to the mental stresses of being a Black man in a still somewhat racially divided America and dealing with a new normal of remote learning, it definitely was not easy. I found myself in new, uncomfortable situations and different states of well-being that kept my mind filled with grief, remorse, and anxiety. As the days passed, I kept questioning, “Why me?” It became so much easier to focus on the stresses of the bad things in my life.