KINDNESS - The Rular Dethroned

             The Modern world is a concrete landscape of fading moral hues with individualism seething in the overflowing cauldron of desires. We grumble that it is a place where culture piercing is a fashion; ready to be consumed and disposed off instant relationships flourish; conversation is arrogantly punctuated with abuses and behavior is tattooed with garish crudities and rash deeds. We seem to be living in a messy museum.

             Grumbling would only pollute the already suffocating scenario. The need is to reconnect with the values, to be inner-directed, sensitive and STARK KIND! In other words, to rediscover the purity of a child’s heart within us. Let’s take inspiration from the following story featured in the CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL:

             “His mother told us the story day after.

             Kenneth was in junior high school and was excited and eager about participating in a day of Special Olympics Events. While his parents watched expectantly from the stands, he ran, and won, the first race. He was proud of his ribbon and the cheers from the crowd.

            He ran in the second race. Just at the finish line, when he again would have won, he stopped, then stepped off the track. His parents gently questioned him. ‘Why did you do that Kenneth? If you had continued running, you would have won another race.’

            Kenneth innocently replied, “But, Mom, I already have a ribbon. Billy didn’t have a ribbon yet.”

            May kindness rule our world!