I try my best to practice kindness as often and as sincerely as I can. We live in a world in which kindness and common courtesy seem to be relics, or things that existed in prior generations but not current ones, and it is a very jarring observation.
I’ve gotten involved in a few situations which did not end well because of my kindness, and despite always trying to be genuine and helpful, I have my limits. And, honestly, in this world, we all should.
I was recently involved in yet another one of these bloody scenarios, but because I’ve learned from past mistakes, I knew when I hit my limit and acknowledged that my kindness had been abused, manipulated and taken for granted. It is unfortunate that the situation had to conclude the way it did, but the other party involved failed to leave me with any other options.
I was telling my mom about it, and I expressed my frustration with the current climate of this world with her. Why is it that when someone tries to assist someone else and exhibit kindness, it so often ends up backfiring in their face? Which prompts me to recognize perhaps why more and more people are choosing not to be kind – perhaps they, too, have had poor experiences with their compassion and have decided they won’t do it again.
We are taught and told to always be kind, and I do believe this to be true. But, only to a certain extent; if you continue to show kindness toward someone or something that continuously abuses it, at what point do we acknowledge that what we are doing is actually lunacy? It’s a harrowing realization, but a relevant one in this world, and it seems as though more and more of us are at our limits.
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