Day 257 of wisdom
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
Barbara De Angelis
Once, A middle aged woman was on her way to the grocery store when she saw an attendant wrestling with a small boy to recover a stolen good. The woman stopped to ask what the situation was, "this boy is a criminal, he tried to get away with a drug he didn't pay for" the attendant screamed. "little boy, why are you doing this?" the woman asked. "My mom is sick at home, she needs the drug, and we cannot afford to pay for it" the young boy said. "Oh! I am so sorry, how much is the drug? I will pay for it, let the little boy go" the woman said. The boy was let go, and the woman paid for the drugs with everything she had on her, and returned home empty. The little boy got home to discover his mother had already given up the ghost.
Some years later, the middle aged woman, now old, weak, and feeble was rushed into the emergency unit of an hospital needing urgent attention. She was quickly attended to, and revived. Upon gaining consciousness she asked how much her bill was, when she was told, she exclaimed, how do I get that much money to pay? "You don't have to worry ma'am, the bills are sorted, you are free to go" a young man in white overall said, dazed, the woman asked, who are you? I am the young boy you paid for his mother's drugs at the groceries thirty years ago, though my mother couldn't make it that day, I am glad you made it today, your kindness and that of many others brought me here today, I own this hospital, the young man explained.
Love and kindness are two inseparable twins, you can not show kindness to someone you don't love, and you can't love someone and not be kind to such person. Love and kindness are never wasted, no matter who it is shown to, those who show love always receive love, and when you are kind to others you get it back from other people. Life is like a pendulum that swings to and fro, if it swings towards you today, it will swing towards another person tomorrow. What you do for others with the opportunity you have today, will determine what you will get from them when they are in the same shoes you were yesterday.
The man who has nothing can give a priceless amount of love and kindness. When we show love, it spreads; when we show kindness, it multiplies, it causes ripples that never ends, it lights up the world around us. The world begs for more kind people, there can never be enough kind men. Kindness does not make a man weak, it strengthen a man. If we want to see a change in the world we must show more kindness, like Bob Kerrey said “Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.”
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