Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Happy seasoning over the dish of life - Fifth Station: KINDNESS

 

      While the last station gave us unexpected expressions and interesting experiences, this next halt is meant to be happy, cheerful and filled with love. Kindness in conduct and softness in words go a long way to offer sustained peace of mind. As a form of flavor, incorporation of kindness in our mannerism provide long-lasting happiness. While kindness does polish our speech, its scope is not restricted to words alone. Kind acts for a noble cause and timely help for those in need combine into the overall joy of life.

       A behavior that displays our stand, staying calm and kind in every type of situation is the magic of humility. Kindness is a quality that differentiates us with an excellent value system. Though success may pull us towards pride, enjoyment of achievements demand presence of kindness. Rude words and harsh conduct offer momentary satisfaction to our feelings, only to be followed by regret, tears, disappointment and sorrow.

    Kindness cannot be incorporated by a crash course or purchased by a fat wallet. It needs a strong desire to stay humble to every life form. Irrespective of age, gender, caste, culture, religion, region or profession, when we learn to regard each one equal and incorporate kind words in our system, we shake hands with happiness. Drawing inspiration from people around helps this task, as kindness reflected from others inspires us to follow suit.

    As a symbol of humility, I admire my father for his kindness. With feet firm on the ground and manner that exhibits polite conduct, I often looked around in a hope to find his magical pills. While it is impossible to absorb and match his level, all I can do is work towards it. Patience and faith are companions of kindness as combination of all three work wonders to create happiness. Many experiences in our life point to the power of kindness.

     At times, even though a task appears impossible, kindness helps to clear out the path to a certain extent. Driving people away, rude behavior can only contribute towards confirmed position of failure. Kindness leaves a mark on our personality, giving identity to our name. With this aspect in mind, it becomes essential to adopt kind acts in our resume!

    So does kindness mean accepting and agreeing to views of everyone without any opposition?

     While this is impossible to achieve, kindness involves expression of our differences in a matured manner. It prompts us to deal with disagreements in a way that conveys our message, while burning away the hatred. In an attempt to prove our point, while we resort to anger and fights, the real meaning is long lost before we reach a conclusion. Kindness is this form of language that speaks the truth, yet chooses a polite way.

      It provides solution for many troubles, as kindness inspires mind to find its own path. Encouraging fruitful relations and strengthening ties with our loved ones, it does surround us with love and happiness. Interesting side effects that come along with kindness include patient ears and eager words. As people respect and admire our conduct, they look forward to an association.
It also enhances building of a strong network and consistent support of near ones.

So, what are the take away messages from this land of humility?

1.       Kindness in speech and action are the keys to happiness.

2.       It takes us closer to people and help formation of strong bonds with everyone around.

3.       It adds flavor to our personality that opens path of success.

4.       Kindness attracts positive energy, patience and faith, reducing failure to an insignificant factor.

5.       Fights and disagreements build negativity, kindness in conduct erase misunderstandings.

6.       It can never eliminate differences in opinions, but can certainly set the stage for a healthy discussion.

7.       Kindness is not a crop that can be reaped with an instant magical seed, it demands consistent efforts and hard work to stay kind, humble and happy.


    This halt has been inspiring to fill our hearts with humility. Hope we carry it as a souvenir, while moving along on our journey ahead.

  Though our next station is not what we may look forward to, halt at this losing reality is part of life and a destination on our way.  

    
 
       


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