People Are Awesome: Random Acts of Kindness in Los Angeles

January 16, 2011 • 10:00 am PST
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The TV Host, producer, and author Leon Logothetis is a believer in random acts of kindness. He's not alone (see: the national foundation and global movement) Says Logothetis:

There is something magical about receiving help from a stranger, when the magic of two souls come together and time stands still. In those moments, one feels an uncommon sense of connection. People only truly prosper by coming together, and it is in this process that the invisible bonds that keep us tethered to each other blossom. The sweetness of these moments is what really fuels us.

Logothetis brought his own RAK social experiment across the pond and took to the streets of downtown L.A., armed with five random acts of kindness in red envelopes and in search of five strangers.

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Leon Logothetis asks what happens when one man attempts to find five strangers and offer each one a random act of kindness.

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