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Kindness Fridays

Posted on March 31, 2017 Updated on March 27, 2017

Last Friday I mentioned a book that I read daily, Live your dash. Another book I read on a daily basis is The Power of Kindness, The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life, by Piero Ferrucci, I’m actually on my second read-through of this encouraging book.

I think we can all agree that what makes the headline news is rarely the pleasant things that occur around us. Horror sells newspapers.

Mr. Ferrucci says the following regarding that unfortunate truth:

There may be murder, there may be violence, and there may be selfishness, but most human beings at heart are helpful and supportive. Cruelty makes the headlines precisely because it is the exception.

But the world goes on because we care for one another . . .

And yet life goes on precisely because we are kind to one another. No newspaper tomorrow will tell of a mother who read a bedtime story to her child, or a father who prepared breakfast for his children, of someone who listened with attention, of a friend who cheered us up, of a stranger who helped us carry a suitcase.

Think of how long our world has been in existence and consider all the mayhem that has played out as described in history books and in front of our very eyes.

Yet, the world goes on.

Kindness and caring have sufficiently sustained us through wars, terrorism, pestilence, and other natural disasters.

It seems appropriate, therefore, that we should feed kindness so its supply never runs out.

Perhaps some day cruelty will run out of steam and die a natural death.

I mean, a person’s gotta hope … right?