Sunday, September 21, 2014

Kindness and Concentric Circles

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.  For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
Margaret Mead

I have a college friend who is truly one of my kindness muses.  He is an example of kindness, always has been.  And probably because of that, I don't know of a single person who has ever said a mean thing about him.  He works overseas, but that is not an obstacle to his maintaining close and meaningful friendships.

Recently, my friend shared what an incredible gift of kindness he had received -- a friend wrote to thank him for being a caring friend.  "Is there a greater gift than to be thanked simply for 'being there' in human kindness?  I'll take that over a store-bought thank you any day."

My friend shared that as part of an e-mail in which he observed that "kindness goes out in concentric circles." 

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