Second Book The 8th Chapter - Kindness - Can You See it?

June 23/17

It is now just over one week since my middle management role has been eliminated.  As I take this time in my life, I feel I am growing in a way I never expected.  I am a 42 year old young at heart kid that feels so excited to how my passion will line up to my new work destination.

As I go through the process of not having traditional employment for the first time in my life.  I have realized the simple small acts are leaving a large impact with me.  I have been thinking about kindness and how it seems to be a rare act.  I am not suggesting people are unkind in general, it just seems the act of kindness is not used as often as it could be.  I am not talking about holding a door for others as an act of kindness, I believe acts like those should be in our DNA and normal actions.  These acts are what should be completely normal protocol for our daily behavior.

What I am talking about is real kindness in the form of acts and thoughts that are not common in our daily routines.  As so much conflict and controversy seems to exist in daily life we seem to make the choices to be informed and to have opinions.  However it seems like our actions tend to follow our tribe.  There is real diversity within our population and yet not real acceptance of all.  All kinds of people just want to be loved and accepted by all and who they are.

Recently 2 young girls created beautiful art imagines of encouraging of acceptance to a group that is traditionally not accepted by our tribe.  They came from a place of not having expectations in their form of art other than to promote full kindness and acceptance.

This kindness is a keep competent for growth within our communities.  Their picture was posted on a social media site and immediately views of their work rose into the thousands.  These 2 young girls had no goal of a social media wave of support but a goal of shared acceptance and of sharing.

I thought this is a key to all of us to be able to actually make a difference in our communities and ultimately will lead to our world noting a impact of real kindness.  For so long now we say we are a evolving civilized society and I challenge all of us to ask ourselves - are we actually evolving the way that truly matters?  Or are we really not fundamentally changing?

A big thank you for the kind impact to these young ladies had on me and my goal is to pay it forward and build acceptance of all.  To truly make a difference by one conversation and kind act at a time.