Your kindness will never harm anyone, but your rudeness might

None of us really ever know what will happen next in life, and this is something we can definitely know about people.  People can be very unpredictable, and if we can see that in ourselves, to predict what another person might do is fraught with every other possibility.

Kindness threatens nobody, but aggression inflicts unknowable wounds.

To be fair, sometimes kindness comes at a cost to the one absorbing hostility as they meet attacks with grace.  Anyone who’s ever done this knows exactly what I mean.  And, of course, the key concern is the pattern of toxic harm that keeps coming, for which we often find we have no answer.

It’s these situations that have caused many to give up hope entirely.

What we all need to see is our world grow kinder, especially in the backdrop of some of the most challenging times everyone’s faced.

The only way we can be kind over the longer haul is by nurturing kindness within, by attaining our own peace, attending to our own healing and self-care.  Of course, some people have more of a capacity for kindness because their hearts have been converted to the rightness of such a motivation for living.

Some, quite frankly, just do not care for it.  They loath the qualities of humility and empathy, and they exist to exploit people and situations because they honestly feel entitled to treat people any way they want.

The person profiled immediately above will often have a contribution—whether directly or indirectly—in the forfeiting of life.  Again, against a backdrop of a myriad of other factors that challenge a person’s mental health, it will be bullying, harassment, and abuse that will tip people over the edge.

It’s not always about the direst consequence, for there are a plethora of ways people check out of life.

Kindness has no such part in the ending of hope, but it actually buoys hope, is a buffer for peace to coalesce, and is a springboard for joy.

Kindness never does even a modicum of harm.  Kindness builds capacity in others, and when we’ve succeeded in giving our away our kindnesses, we always directly or indirectly benefit.

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