I’m OK with grumpy and tough, with funny and jolly.
I’m OK with hard-edged and soft, warm and cool, clever and obtuse, quick and slow, brassy and classy. You can laugh or cry – or not – that’s all fine with me.
But kindness is something I can’t budge on. We’ve all seen that someone who is nice in all the right ways to all the right people, and then her true colors come out when she thinks no one’s looking and she has nothing to lose.
A person who is consistently kind is a person with humility. In being kind, no matter what, she chooses not to create separation by tearing others down. Her kindness demonstrates respect. It shows that she knows that she shares her humanity with everyone she interacts with. It even shows confidence: by extending a hand to another, in ways big and small, whenever she can, she shows that she knows that raising others up doesn’t cost anything, doesn’t use up any scarce resource.
Kindness is abundance manifest.
