Kindness

This is a closeup of Blue Eyed Blues, it is available in my Etsy shop.

I don't feel any closer to my destination or even figuring out where my destination is, but I do know one thing I am.  I am kind.  I have always been kind.  It is part of my dna.  I like people till they give me a reason not to and I am kind to everyone including those who have hurt me the most.  I feel that there are so many problems in the world that everyone needs someone to be kind to them. 

I have been blessed lately by the kindness of my friends who took care of me when I couldn't really take care of myself.  I have been blessed lately with the kindness of strangers who give me the confidence to write my life and hope that I help someone with my words. I have been blessed lately with my relatives and friends from my school days who seem to know when I need a phone call or an inspirational quote.  I have been blessed by the kindness of everyone who has come into contact with the rather bedraggled me lately.

But unkindness has also been a visitor at my table.  I do not for the life of me understand people who take delight in making others miserable.  I guess it fills some sort of need in them.  But for myself in my unkind moments it makes me feel lousy.  I hate to be unkind, it feels like I am not honoring my true essence.  The essence to be kind.  So I am trying a little harder to be kind to even those who don't treat me the same way.   To thine own self be true.

So although I am no closer to my destination I realize that I am kind.  I like to  bring a little  bit of sunshine into everybody's day, because kindness can sometimes do powerful things and being unkind can also be that last straw, the one that breaks the person it is done to.  Be nice, be kind. 

Most importantly make sure you teach your children kindness because that is the gift that keeps on giving.  We need a kinder world and children are our future.