Kindness...

Sometimes it seems as if our world is becoming more and more abstract and in the process less and less intimate. City living and impersonal suburban homes make it easy to have an abstract concept of being a loving person without having to test that the hypothesis outside a very close circle of family and friends.

Kindness is the heart stretching itself and opening up clogged arteries before they know they have a problem. Kindness is the simple, unnoticed act of being present to the context of our daily lives. Kindness is the letting go of fixed societal procedures to reach across the chasm of isolation and touch another being. Kindness is a stretching, a movement, a touching that is more felt than thought.

For me, friends are just like my daily dosage of steroids. Someone I can put my practice of random kindness to use.They perk me up and sometimes alter my day so drastically that I really feel thankful that they are there for me despite of me sometimes behaving cold and withdrawn. Regardless of rain or shine, they will sure provide me with something to laugh at or a distraction to wind down. So, constantly, I reminded myself to be kind and loving, especially to my love ones and friends who have provided me much care and attention.

Our practice of kindness shows us a self that we can come to like and even love. We are all capable of kindness.

DaRkAnGeL’s WoRdS oF WiSdOm :

“We may have achieved much through all years of learning and the pursuit of wisdom. But, without a doubt, only the heart knows how to find what is precious.”