Kindness; Soul Food

Kindness for me has always been a means of expression. A way to pour out the plethora of gladness in my heart. As a child, I loved to do stuff for others. I still do. That color of joy that I see on the faces of people makes me want to do more. It gladdens my heart that my simple gestures have the power to positively affect a person's mood.

For me, kindness is in the little things like a lovely comment, a smile, a thoughtful gift, and even simple words of encouragement.

Kindness is helping people out whichever way you can without expecting anything in return, without belittling them or being condescending, without spreading the word of your act for glorification.

Kindness is just spreading goodness from the depth of your heart and hoping that it gets passed on to the next person. It is simply getting your heart filled with joy and fulfillment.

The feeling is tingling and surreal. It is in the imagination that the universe sees you. It smiles and nods at you as if to say, “Child, I see you.” That is just pure bliss and nothing beats that.

I have chosen the path of being kind and no matter what the world throws at me, nothing is going to stop me from being kind and soaking in the euphoric ecstasy that comes with it.

I think we now live in a world where a lot is centered around the self (self-care, awareness, growth, etc). So much so that we are slowly learning to care less about others, our environment, and the universe at large.

We are starting to forget that for the world to be a better place, we need to carry our environment along with us. If my home is perfect but it's all messy around me, I'm bound to get contaminated by the mess either physically or mentally.

Sometimes, the universe neatly conceals its blessings in simple gestures like feeding birds, helping kids cross the street, getting that twig off the road, and so on. These blessings are just there waiting for our acts of kindness to unearth them.

In a nutshell, kindness is also a process of creating a safe space around us. It is healing and it is nurturing. Knowing that the people around you are on a similar wavelength is just perfection.

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