Acts of kindness go a long way, and connections can be made even through small gestures. In Maria Konnikova’s piece, “The limits of Friendship,” she mentions the Dunbar number and how we can only connect with a certain amount of people. The Dunbar number shows the limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. Although we see in Lameris’ poem on Small Kindnesses that it’s frankly easy to make connections with one another even if it’s a small gesture, like saying bless you or pulling your legs in a crowded aisle. Konnikova’s piece on friendship directly relates to Lameris’ poem and so does David Foster Wallace’s speech. Wallace mentions the default setting of how we have an impulse to be the center of attention all the time. In this case, Lameris’ poem describes how we have an impulse to do these small acts of kindness, and not selfishly think, like in Wallace’s perception of the default setting where generally all you are thinking about is yourself. Wallace and Konnikova both relate to Lameris’ poem, as the poem inadvertently argues against both the default setting and the Dunbar number. That we can make simple connections through a reflex or an act of kindness, and that we aren’t necessarily the center of attention, and on lots of occasions, we’re looking out for others, rather than ourselves.