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I preside over Young Adult Court which is a specialty court program at the 2nd Judicial District Court. This program focuses on individuals aged 18-25 with felony charges and requires treatment, alcohol and drug testing, court appearances and intensive supervision with a YAC officer for a minimum of 18 months. After completing this program, a participant graduates and presents their graduation speech to the judges, the YAC team and their fellow participants.

Recently, Zion Graham graduated from YAC and during his presentation multiple YAC participants addressed Zion, revealing how impactful his leadership, generosity and kindness was to their success in the program. It was a touching moment and reminded me how important it is to do nice things for others. At his graduation, I learned for the first time that Zion generously offered up his time as a mentor in the program. There was no requirement that Zion mentor the other participants. He did it to be kind, not for recognition.

Doing nice things for others actually makes you feel great. It鈥檚 been called the 鈥淗elper鈥檚 High.鈥� In writing this column, I discovered that our brains are actually programmed for us to be generous and kind. Even doing small acts of kindness releases chemical messengers like dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin. These neurotransmitters make us feel calm, confident, happy, connected and safe. What is even more interesting is the more we do any act of kindness, the more our brain starts reorganizing, making us more likely to continue kind behavior in the future.

Because it was Zion鈥檚 kindness and generosity that motivated me to write on this subject, I asked him to contribute to this column.

Young Adult Court graduate, Zion Graham:

For a long time, I lived in survival mode. After being shot three times, stabbed, struggling with drugs and experiencing people turn their backs on me, I learned to keep my guard up. I often felt attacked, and anger and aggression became my way of protecting myself. Eventually, I realized that living that way was like wearing a spiritual straitjacket. I thought it was keeping me safe, when really it was keeping me from living a full life.

Joel 鈥� a YAC graduate 鈥� became an important inspiration to me because, in a lot of ways, we understood each other. He kept his guard up too. Neither one of us trusted easily, but over time we both began to open up. That taught me something powerful; kindness doesn鈥檛 make you weak, and trusting someone doesn鈥檛 always mean you鈥檙e going to get hurt.

Today I try to treat people the way I want to be treated. When I help someone else succeed or encourage them to be a leader, it elevates my spirit too. I鈥檓 trying to turn the negatives from my past into something positive. Bad habits can become good habits. Anger can become understanding. Pain can become purpose.

I鈥檝e also learned that kindness isn鈥檛 only about what you do for other people. It鈥檚 about how you treat yourself through exercise, therapy, growth and giving yourself the opportunity to become better. I can鈥檛 change the things I鈥檝e done or everything that鈥檚 happened to me, but I can decide what I do with those experiences. For me, kindness has become a way of turning the life I survived into a life that means something.

Cindy Leos is a criminal court judge in the 2nd Judicial District Court. Zion Graham is a recent Young Adult Court graduate.