The world needs more kindness

By Kat


It is a very sad thing to note the extent to which people go out of their way to help others these days. And it is because, as I have mentioned previously, our world revolves around personal gain. While it is true that our world cannot function without the concept, a large part of giving happiness to ourselves is giving happiness to others, yet so few make a point of achieving this.

The world needs more kindness. It needs more people who take the extra minute just to open a door, smile at a stranger, or help someone with fallen bags. We need more warmth in this world over the increasing effect of coldness and hostility towards each other based on ridiculous grounds. In a world where there are so many sources of aggravation, and people are 7 times more likely to be susceptible to negative emotions, it's become so impossible for us to display kindness even as it is so necessary to a human society.

As humans, we have our flaws. We have the parts of us who will always turn a blind eye to injustice, or even go to cause it. But it is worth it to have the right mind to at least try to put in the effort for creating happiness and gratitude.

You can always see the examples of lack of empathy and kindness everywhere you go- whether it be in the bullied child at school that no-one bothers to stand up for, the insult, the fallen books or shopping bags...it's everywhere, and yet we do so little about it.

I propose a challenge to you all- I wonder how many occurrences the average person walks past each day that they could change for the better? The next time you go out, purposefully try to find the will to discover the possibilities for change, the times where you have the opportunity to show the world what you are capable of changing in our society that will result in a shred of happiness being introduced to the world.

The fact is that in the end of the day, we may admire the rich person who has risen to power but chooses not to partake in charitable measures, but only because we want to be in their shoes. We want to have the control of personal assets and the ability to wield finances so easily. But we will never admire them or cherish their actions or smile at the thought of what they've done as we do to the people who offer even the slightest form of basic human kindness- an ability to give with no strings attached.