100 Ways to Love People

I used to believe that if we failed to tell at least three people a day that we love them, we had wasted a day of our life.  But then I realized that saying it only three times was aiming really low. There are so many ways to tell people we love them, three times a day is just inadequate. I came up with a list of 100 ways in short order, but I would like to see a poem reflecting this value. I'm not suggesting writers list a literal 100 ways, but rather address the spirit of the ideal poetically. A list is fine, but a poem is best.

I am including a quick list I made, and it may be redundant.  But like I said, I want a poem...and having original ideas/ways to love people, would make my day. 

Profound ideas that really help people feel inspired to actually reach out and love others better is what I am after.  After all, as they say, love is a verb.

Let's help change the world, one poem at a time!  You need not be a Christian, or any other faith-based type person to join this contest.  Just because I am, doesn't mean I will discriminate if someone is different than me.  THAT would not be very loving.  :-)

Thank you.

Timothy Cameron

1.  Love God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength.
2.  Love others as we love ourselves.
3.  Returning carts to the corral (or bring them into) the stores.
4.  Help workers load a truck cart that they are having trouble moving up a ramp.
5.  Call someone and tell them that you love them.
6.  Let someone tell me that they love me.
7.  Compliment them on a spiritual quality that they possess.
8.  Listen empathetically and honestly without trying to fix someone.
9.  Leave things better than I found them.
10.  Take the time to employ the Law of Creative Smiling when we are around people (smiling with your laughter, eyes, teeth, tongue, posture, physical proximity, etc).
11.  Hugs.
12.  Handshakes.
13.  If someone is behind you at a store and you are both looking for a prime parking spot, drive past the good one and let the other driver have it (or just never take the best spot and let someone else can have it).
14.  Call someone and let them know you care.
15.  Do free service work at your place of employment.
16.  Sacrifice time and energy to help people.
17.  Give people room on the road, let them go first.  Be polite and smile. 
18.  Stop for pedestrians.
19.  Pull over to help someone having trouble on the roadside.
20.  Caress a loved one’s face with a deep look of love.
21.  Offer well-placed & sincere compliments.
22.  Let them know they have a social snafu thing going on (booger on their nose, fly open, button open on one’s blouse, food on chin, etc).
23.  Tell them a lighthearted joke.
24.  Encourage someone that is feeling stressed or has a hurtle to surmount.
25.  Shovel someone’s driveway anonymously.
26.  Give pleasure without expectation of reciprocal activity.
27.  Give someone a backrub.
28.  Wash someone’s feet.
29.  Give your partner a bath.
30.  Share some music with someone (burn CD’s for people).
31.  Deposit some money in a friend’s account that needs money.
32.  Fast and give the money you would have spent on food to the poor.
33.  Volunteer to help a charity.
34.  Buy a treat for someone.
35.  Laugh with people.
36.  Write someone a poem.
37.  Buy someone a greeting card (or create one for someone).
38.  Clean someone’s windshield of snow and ice.
39.  Buy some food for a poor person or a Missionary while in line at a grocery store.
40.  Go to a Thrift Shop and buy something for a needy person.
41.  Return a lost article to someone.
42.  Admit to someone when you are wrong.
43.  Inject lightheartedness into difficulty circumstances.
44.  When you were right and someone else was wrong, do not rub their nose in it, but rather say something appreciative with humility.
45.  Offer someone your place in line wherever your are.
46.  Let someone know in their work capacity, that you, their customer, genuinely appreciate their hard work.
47.  Adjust a rug by a business door that has been rumpled and is keeping a door from closing right, or is just out of position.
48.  Pick up trash on the side of a road and discard it in the proper receptacle.
49.  Do not play your radio too loud in quiet neighborhoods or when people are nearby.
50.  Provide someone transportation.
51.  Provide directions to someone asking for it (maybe lead them to           the right street or highway, etc.).
52.  Shampoo someone’s hair.
53.  Give up your seat on the bus, give up your taxi, or offer someone your choice spot in a well-attended function.
54.  Get to work on time and do not leave early at someone else’s expense.
55.  Do not use foul language around people that find it uncomfortable to be around it.
56.  Open a door for someone.
57.  Pull out and push in a chair for a date (follow social etiquette).
58.  Do not flap the covers after you fart (or don’t fart there in the first place).
59.  Do not gossip.
60.  Be inclusive.
61.  Be positive, not negative.
62.  Remember people’s names (including their children).
63.  Praise someone, treat someone extra-special.
64.  Ask someone what his or her name means (first or last, when appropriate).
65.  Ask permission to ask a question before asking it.
66.  Thank a store clerk by name after a transaction.
67.  Compliment someone’s appearance when appropriate.
68.  Learn something about someone’s field of interest so you can discuss it with them.
69.  Learn someone’s sibling’s names and learn things about them.
70.  Remember what people tell you about personal things.
71.  Return phone calls.
72.  Remove trash from the street.
73.  Volunteer to give rides.
74.  Write someone a poem.
75.  Do 12^th Step work.
76.  Clean up trash in a restaurant for the Wait Staff.
77.  Scrape someone’s’ windshield of ice & snow anonymously
78.  Shovel someone’s driveway/sidewalk anonymously.
79.  Give a generous tip to Wait staff.
80.  Pick up garbage and dispose of it in the proper receptacles.
81.  To avoid embarrassing them, mention your name to someone you have not seen in a while, just in case they forgot your name.
82.  While waiting in line, be patient and cheerful.
83.  Let someone else in line go first.
84.  Offer to help an elderly person carry groceries to the car.
85.  Offer your arm for support to an elderly person walking across the street, to their car, to church, etc.
86.  Make amends to those we have harmed.
87.  Place a quarter in someone’s expired parking meter.
88.  Let someone get in front of you in traffic.
89.  Be grateful for everything.
90.  Make amends.
91.  Throw a quarter in someone’s expired parking meter.
92.  Do service work at your place of worship.
93.  Offer to babysit at no cost so someone from your place of worship or place of employment can attend a workshop or event as a couple.
94.  Forgive yourself or others.
95.  Feeding aquarium fish and watching them look like they are dancing.
96.  Bringing food to and feeding pets.
97.  Let people love you exactly as they are.
98.  Teach (encourage) love.
99.  Don't cuss around those that don't care for it.