Kindness by Charlie s

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KINDNESS

Kindness

It seems as time goes by we get a little more impatient, a little quicker to

anger and a little less kind to each other.

You see it everyday from the guy who cuts you off in the passing lane to the

teenager who works at the hamburger place who shoves your change at you without

so much as a thank you.

Being polite is so much easier than being abusive and abrasive. It not only

makes people like to be around you, it's just better on your blood pressure.

Sometimes a kind word can mean more than we'll ever know to someone who is

having a bad day. Even a simple smile can be uplifting to someone who hasn't

seen one in a while.

I remember a more genteel time when manners and courtesy were the order of the

day, when children showed respect for their elders, a day when corporal

discipline was universal in the raising of a child, and no one dared to talk

back to a school teacher, and a man wouldn't even think of using an off color

word in the presence of a lady.

What happened? Well in my opinion, manners and courtesy are just two more

victims of an overly permissive society.

Good people stood by and let one pitiful atheist have prayer removed from our

public school system, and you can say what you want to about that but we didn't

have have murders in our schools back in those days.

Coincidence? I think not.

We didn't take it seriously when they banished the nativity scenes and Ten

Commandments from public places.

Belligerence, arrogance and downright filth spew forth from our television

sets, the bottom line being the criteria, thus justifying Beavis and Butthead

and their ilk.

My e-mail screen is inundated with unsolicited offers of hard core pornography

and just the language they use to tout this garbage is enough to make an old

salt blush.

We have become a vulgar, undisciplined society standing docilely by while

little by little any semblance of decency disappears from the American scene.

However, we can't be responsible for the whole world, but we can be responsible

for the little bit of space we occupy and we can make our space a better place.

We can filter what comes into our space and edit what goes out of it.

I believe that kindness is contagious and smiles are catching.

Were you ever around an individual who was so up and so positive that it just

made you feel good to be in their presence?Did you ever know someone who just

radiated good feelings and the first thing you know you're smiling and laughing

and having a fine old time?

It all goes back to the golden rule of treating other people the way we want to

be treated.

It's so easy, try it. When you go to work today, speak to that person who never

speaks to you. Just a simple " good morning " will do, smile at the old

neighborhood grouch accompanied by something like, " How are you today? " . Let

someone in line in front of you or give some homeless person a couple of

dollars.

Smile at the first ten people you come in contact with and speak courteously to

everyone you see.

Do it for a few days and you might be surprised at the results.

What do you think?

God Bless America

-Charlie s-

~ " We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a

little of each other everywhere. " ~

~ " If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the

entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. "