After reading this post, I immediately sat down to reflect on it thinking that the question of prompt is so easy to answer. My mind started racing backwards in time to find one such act that I can identify as answer to the prompt. To my surprise, I did not find any. Honestly, I did not find a single act that was ‘Not’ an act of kindness. Even if there had been any, my mind had decided long back not even to remember them. So you see, acts of kindness are part of our being normal human beings. It is the acts of unkindness that are rare and which stand out in our memory as eyesores, worth ignoring or forgetting so as not to get hurt ourselves. In search for a reflection, it is the dawning of this fact that has made an impact on my way of thinking. If we are kind in our own hearts, we will find kindness all around.
Being kind is a normal basic instinct, far better seen in animal kingdom where no one hurts any one else just for the fun of it. it is us the humans who have devised this new sadistic trait of taking pleasure in others’ discomfiture, perhaps as part of our progress on evolutionary scale.
Kindness is our inherent attribute. It consists of empathy, the thoughts, and compassion, the action. What comes in our way of practicing kindness is our ego, greed, and selfishness. Once we control these evils, kindness will become our priority and will flow automatically.
Animals are not only our evolutionary ancestors; they are also our co-inhabitants on this planet. They can teach us what we seem to have forgotten, the sense of love, care and of course, mutual kindness. We love our domesticated pets, and the birds and beasts in wilderness, we even notice and appreciate their virtues, but we forget to emulate their sense of kindness.
As aged senior citizens, we always find a gesture of kindness, a helping hand around, so much so that it becomes noticeable only when it is missing.
After reading this post, I immediately sat down to reflect on it thinking that the question of prompt is so easy to answer. My mind started racing backwards in time to find one such act that I can identify as answer to the prompt. To my surprise, I did not find any. Honestly, I did not find a single act that was ‘Not’ an act of kindness. Even if there had been any, my mind had decided long back not even to remember them. So you see, acts of kindness are part of our being normal human beings. It is the acts of unkindness that are rare and which stand out in our memory as eyesores, worth ignoring or forgetting so as not to get hurt ourselves. In search for a reflection, it is the dawning of this fact that has made an impact on my way of thinking. If we are kind in our own hearts, we will find kindness all around.
Being kind is a normal basic instinct, far better seen in animal kingdom where no one hurts any one else just for the fun of it. it is us the humans who have devised this new sadistic trait of taking pleasure in others’ discomfiture, perhaps as part of our progress on evolutionary scale.
Kindness is our inherent attribute. It consists of empathy, the thoughts, and compassion, the action. What comes in our way of practicing kindness is our ego, greed, and selfishness. Once we control these evils, kindness will become our priority and will flow automatically.
Animals are not only our evolutionary ancestors; they are also our co-inhabitants on this planet. They can teach us what we seem to have forgotten, the sense of love, care and of course, mutual kindness. We love our domesticated pets, and the birds and beasts in wilderness, we even notice and appreciate their virtues, but we forget to emulate their sense of kindness.
As aged senior citizens, we always find a gesture of kindness, a helping hand around, so much so that it becomes noticeable only when it is missing.