The Efforts of Being Kind (Journal #2)
"You don't need a reason to help people." I think what a lot of people struggle to understand about kindness is that it doesn’t require much effort at all, to be honest. It took me a while, too. Throughout my entire high school experience it had never occurred to be that a simple smile, or a wave of ‘hello’ early in the morning can make someone’s day. I simply thought that to be a good person, to be kind, you have to constantly prove yourself to somebody else. I thought you had to be acknowledged for what you’ve done. That the only way someone could be seen as being a kind person was when other people could see it, too. But that isn’t the case. Not a single bit. Kindness doesn’t require proof. It does not require anything else, or anybody else, other than yourself. If you are helping somebody, you don’t need them to be a witness of your action. You shouldn’t help them because you know it’s the right thing to do and you want others to see that you’re a good pe