Tag: Kindness
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I want to talk about kindness again. I’ve written before about kindness as a personal quality — about staying soft in a world that rewards hardness, about choosing warmth even when it isn’t returned. But this post is about something different. A harder kind of kindness. The kind that costs you something. The kind that…
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Seeing people and situations in black and white — all good or all bad, with you or against you — usually isn’t conviction. It’s often just an old habit of not knowing how to sit with disagreement without treating it as a threat. My father saw the world in two colours. Right or wrong, with…
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The cashier was talking to an older woman in front of me about her grandson’s exam results. Not rushing it. Not glancing at the queue. Just listening, the way you listen when you’ve known someone for twenty years and their grandson’s exam results actually matter to you. Behind me, a woman in hiking sandals was…