June 7, 2012

• What Is Kindness?

   

          Kindness……first cousin of Love

  KINDNESS comes with many veils:
  
  TENDERNESS…….When the nurse holds your hand during a difficult procedure or when you bandage your child’s skinned knee. When you first pick up your newborn child or when the time comes for the final kiss on the brow of a dying parent. Next to violence, tenderness is one of the few traits we share with other animals.

  COMPASSION….When a Mom puts her arms around her teen daughter after her first heartbreak. The act of a simple touch on the arm of a grieving widow. The long hours spent listening to a worried friend.

  CONCERN….The phone calls made to elder parents and sick friends. The caring look you give a worried spouse. The first words you utter to someone you have not heard from in a while. Silence from your kid’s room.

      Kindness comes in all shades and textures. It can overwhelm someone or be so delicate as to not be noticed but only felt after a time. Kindness is easily overshadowed by many of our less noble traits like anger and hate, fear, jealousy, worry and confusion. Kindness is a powerfully gentle thing. It will resurface long after anger has done it’s damage and often repair and rekindle the injured soul. Kindness is also difficult!    

   

     Finally….the old saying that “you can get more with honey than vinegar”, still makes no sense to me, but what I do know is that those individuals that do practice kindness in their everyday life are often people of dignity, respectability, worth and absolute class! I am very proud to say that many of those good people are my friends here on Xanga.

   

   

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