Stories of Kindness from Around the World

Kindness, and the world.

I believe we are in many ways brought up to believe that kindness is very rare. We are taught about a cruel world, an unjust world. We are taught about mans inhumanity to man. War and violence, power and money. The world is becoming more and more corrupt, and its true and I won’t deny it , humankind has succumbed to selfishness, arrogance, and primitive savagery towards one another.

Yet, in the pit of all humankinds violence and cruelties, there is a ray of hope that keeps us from ceasing to exist, and that is love. And with love comes kindness towards fellow mankind. Love motivates kindness, you cannot have love without kindness, and you cannot have kindness without love.

It is the kindness in our hearts that brings us together as a race after awful things have happened to our world. It was inhumanity and sin that caused the twin towers to collapse, and it was love and kindness that brought the nation together again.

It is inhumanity and sin that causes the wars humanity goes though over and over again, and it is love and kindness that that brings the world to peace again.

These two contrasting qualities exist in humankind, yet sometimes kindness takes over completely, and sometimes someone will share their umbrella with a person drenched, and sometimes someone will give a hungry person a meal, and sometimes someone will give someone whose really been through something a flower and an inspirational message, and it really brightens their day. A little difference goes a long way, and I think if we can get the message across the world about kindness, we can balance out kindness and inhumanity, and let kindness take over, so that we are driven by love and kindness, and not power and money.

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau