Kindness

I wonder sometimes why more people aren’t kind. I know there are all sorts of awful things people have lived through, gone through, etc. But then there are people who really haven’t been through much. In any case, life itself presents enough pain and hard stuff for any spirit having a human bean experience. So why make it harder on each other by being unkind, intolerant, mean?

I have lived through plenty of hard stuff, both inflicted by others and inflicted by myself, especially through active alcoholism and drug addiction. And life sometimes seems to present situations to this late blooming soul of mine that have caused me to cause pain. But: I will do anything I can to minimize the pain I cause in this world, and vastly prefer others who practice respect, tolerance and kindness in their worlds.

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SomeKindOfACircle

July 29, 2006

I always remind myself that we don’t know what happened in another person’s life 5 minutes before we got to them. When clerks are crabby or someone ignores me at work, I remind myself that they may have huge problems that I don’t even know about. (For me that’s easier than thinking they’re JERKS.) Claire (CrazyDreams) writing from another diary.

~Dreamer

The Efficient Oak

Interesting thought. A question I often ask myself but it seems that Crazy Dreams has a good policy. one of my greatest life lessons was my primary school teacher telling us that the greatest gift we could offer was a smile and that smiling at an elderly person, you could be the only person to share something positive with them all day. It has grown on me. I try to always say hello and bring some warmth – cos you never know what other folks are going through. A lot of them think I’m mad, but I heard many more say they miss my smile when I’m gone. But I also know that sometimes I do bad thinks and I wish I could learn to spread only peace and harmony in the world. I will work on it.

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