
So, here’s the thing. Kindness doesn’t cost anything. At least it usually doesn’t. It can be as simple as opening a door for someone. That’s politeness, of course, but it can also be a kind thing to do. No one has to do it, like everything else in life, kindness is a choice.
But also, like everything else in life, kindness, like love, can have many can rules attached to it. How far does anyone’s kindness extend?
Do all living beings deserve kindness? Should one have to deserve kind treatment from others? What does someone have to do, to deserve it? Be like the person who bestows it upon the other?
If every living being deserved kindness, everyone would be a vegetarian and never wear leather. But kindness, like love, doesn’t go as far as the dead animal on a dinner plate. Animal, like people, are not treated with kindness, not even all pets/companion animals.
Prejudice people don’t always treat others with kindness. Conservative, right-wing people certainly don’t. I know that for a fact (sweeping generalization, I know). Men absolutely don’t treat all women with kindness, that’s why women are always working to stop violence against them. Gays are beaten to death because they love someone, others don’t think they should love. How INSANE is that? African Americans are killed in the street by the police who are supposed to protect people.
Well, I could go on, but you get what I’m saying. The point is, all we ever do is TALK, make silly signs, and do more pretending. Everything we do is limited by our beliefs, brain washing, and conditioning.
Love, kindness…all of it, only goes so far. Hate crimes, war, never ending violence…proves that kindness only exists in tiny, personal moments. All the things we go on and on about, are personal things we can withhold, because we truly don’t believe that everyone deserves to be treated kindly. We don’t like everyone, therefore, we doin’t always treat the people we don’t like kindly. People don’t even treat people they say they love, kindly.
Think rapist priests. They are liars, child rapists, and look at what they PREACH and tell others. It’s all lies. You can’t believe part of something when things are that horrific.
We live in a world where our actions do not reflect the things we say we believe in.
We are a species of mixed messages, which can lead to shallow graves for women who dare to go out alone at night.
I have been treated kindly. I have treated others kindly. But, as I said, those are small personal things. Trust isn’t something many can take for granted. It’s too dangerous and all the lies make it more so. Ask the girls who thought going to college would be safe.
If we want to change the world. If we want to make things better, then we have to stop lying and pretending. Humans are not always kind. Humans are very often violent. Look what the russians are doing to the people in Ukraine. Look at what’s actually going on in the world.
WE ARE THE VIOLENCE. It’s us. Us alone. Animals do not start wars or take over other countries. Animals, do not destroy the environment. Everything bad that is happening, is because of us and still, we lie and pretend that kindness and love mean something. That those “thoughts” will bring about change, while the oceans are being polluted, as well as our air and the soil. Climate change is our fault.
And many times kindness is needed to help those who have been abused, violated, damaged by others, because we are a violent species with very few stopping points.
To bring about change, we need to tell the truth. But there in lies the problem. Truth is personal. There is no universal truth. Because of that, we kill and destroy. The truth of Ukraine, is very different from the truth of russia. This is where the problems come in. This is why we can never have peace never have true kindness. This is why hatred and violence exist. Because of ideas and beliefs. Someone always wants to control someone else. Because of that, there will always be conflict. Justifiably so, but peace will be unattainable because of those differences.
Basically, all of our problems stem from power over others and greed. I don’t know how to get rid of those things. I don’t know how to stop all the “isms.” I don’t know why people hate others. I know what they say, I just don’t know how they think. Girl’s can’t be educated, but they can die in child marriages where a man rips them apart. Kindness? No, it’s about WITHHOLDING. Powerful men WITHHOLD from the rest of the world and people suffer and die because of THAT.
We have to look at the big picture, not just our our lives.
I do know that If a person can eat another living being, who has been terrified, tortured, and murdered, then there is no kindness or love in the world. None at all. There’s only levels of cruelty and death of innocents. Maybe people kill animals because they know they are better than we are. I don’t know. Maybe they have no hearts.
We lie to each other and to ourselves. Believing the lies, is what’s killing everything. I don’t think humans will ever wake up. Not unless there’s something in it for them. Apparently, survival isn’t enough of an incentive.
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