The Kindness of Civility

“Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.”
―  John R. Dallas, Jr.

It’s nice to observe kind acts as they unfold in an everyday kind of way.  Today, I saw a gentleman help a stranger carry a large dresser off a loading dock.  I later watched as the same man held the door open for someone else.  Those everyday acts of kindness represent a civility that makes the world a nicer place and that seems to reflect a connectedness among us.  And they help me not get so angry when I find that someone has thrown a piece of chewing gum onto the hood of my car.