Kindness, A Must-Have.

I was just wondering how I could define the ‘Kindness’ and then a beautiful quote caught my sight which was more than sufficient to define Kindness & that was,

Kindness is choosing love over hate,

Light over darkness,

Compassion over judgement.

I can now describe Kindness as love, light, magnanimity, philanthropy, bravery, helping, supporting, knowledge sharing, compassion, respect, fear of negativity, and predilection for positivity. Kindness is something which every creature of the universe can understand wholly. That is why, someone beautifully said,’ Kindness is a universal language’.

Every creature, be it a dog, cat, zebra, or a human, can understand kindness as we can see even animals become loyal to their masters just because of the kindness bestowed upon them by their masters.

Kindness is a way to wisdom. When we start being kind to every creature, we start opening our hearts towards enlightenment. As someone said beautifully, ‘Kindness is the highest form of intelligence’. Small acts of kindness make a huge difference not only to the receiver but to the giver.

We should do acts of kindness on daily basis to make everyone around us happy, and valuable. I did some random acts of kindness viz,

• Helped my friend making his #superhero resume and #super partner cover letter.
• Tried to give my seat to an old person on a vehicle oil change shed but he refused with smile and love.
• Guided my very junior roommate about his studies.
• Tried to get one of my junior roommate appointed to a call centre through my reference.
• Said thank you to one of my friend for the task he did for me.
• Tried to counsel one of my psychologically ailing friend.

By putting myself into doing such deeds, I could feel the lighter feeling inside me and a follow up urge to perform such acts again and again. I experienced a feeling that this was the actual thing we had been made for but we totally ignore doing such deeds. I learned that by such small deeds, we can spread happiness, we can replete the world with knowledge by sharing knowledge to someone and ultimately be the reason for a better world.

When we greet someone with low social status, when we spend time with sick people, the level of happiness on their faces is beyond description. When we remove someone’s mental confusion, the way he thanks you is really something which rejuvenates your soul. We say that actions are contagious, smiles are contagious, in the very similar manner we can say kindness is contagious.

This Kindness thing can be applied to every situation like, while working in teams, we can become valuable team player by rendering kindness to everyone. Like, sometimes in teams, some person has difficulty in doing certain task and you helped him doing his task, he will be kind to you in future. Every time some team member completes the task, be the first to acknowledge him. Try to indulge in every member’s task in an intention to help him, not to show that you are more efficient. That’s how we can build a friendly-cum-supportive environment in the team and can lead the team to a definite success.

We should make kindness the style of life if we want to achieve ourselves and the world. I must say, the world now is in dire need of imposing “Global Kindness Emergency”.

Virtually all goodness lies in one word and that is,

‘Kindness’.