UNKINDNESS
Kindness is a virtue; unkindness is a vice. Kindness wins friends and influences people;
unkindness repels them and makes you lonely. Kindness is attractive and
magnetic; unkindness is repulsive and offensive.
If you are unkind, you are
unfriendly, ungenerous, cruel, vicious, harsh, heartless, nasty, ruthless and
unsympathetic.
Kindness has innumerable advantages.
It is a divine quality. It gets you blessings from everybody except from those
who are thankless. It is not only humans who deserve your kindness; birds and
beasts, insects and worms, too, have pitiable life. In fact, there is nothing in creation which has
no life, short or long. Be unkind to your mirror, you will lose it hastily; be
kind to it and it will remain your companion for decades to come.
Kindness is generosity of the heart and the strength of the
soul. It is an imperishable virtue. If you have it, preserve it. If you lack
it, cultivate it.
Finally, as the English poet and
playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) said: “Rich gifts wax poor when
givers prove unkind.”
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G. R. Kanwal
13 March 2024
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