The Urban Sherpa - Kindness

(cautiously optimistic...)

The Urban Sherpa keeps a collection of stories and curios filed under Mythic Proportions.

Kindness

June 24, 2006

I wonder if I'm too nice.

I've always imagined kindness to be like throwing logs on a fire: throw more logs and the fire gets bigger. Then the fire makes you warm. The more kindness, the more warmth.

Maybe it's not like that.

Maybe it's like a bank: you have a balance of it, and it's okay to take the excess and give it away—give to Oxfam, give to the Red Cross, help those people who are out of luck, out of food, out on the street. It's okay and good to do this. But spend it carefully, where it's appreciated, where the resource will be well-used—and leave enough in the account to pay your own rent, or you'll become one of the people you're trying to help...

[See also, Sainthood.]

Another weekend in Boston...