kindness
Do you find that every day niceties are disappearing? Kindness is interpreted as weakness? A neurosurgeon I worked with asked me one day if a chair was taken. “Is it ok if I sit here?” I told him he was at the top of the food chain and he could sit anywhere he wanted. We both gave a short chuckle and went on with our day. That moment stayed in my mind. He is an example of many memorable encounters with kind people who inspire me to be as they are. I’m still working on it.
Politeness is different. Some people can be caustically polite. You’ve met them, the soft spoken smiling face that gossips with tact. Kind people are aware of others while grocery shopping, moving aside, or yielding to the product search of a fellow shopper. They don’t always wave or smile so they can be hard to discover sometimes, but, what a beautiful world this would be if we would all learn from them.
Kind people don’t do things out a sense of reward, they are just innately so. I think we should celebrate kindness rather than war and death and sacrifice.
