WHEREVER YOU GO, LEAVE YOUR FOOTPRINTS OF KINDNESS AND LOVE

While catastrophes bring out the best in us, with tales of kindness and generosity providing a silver lining among darkness and gloom everywhere, in our everyday lives, we are quite miserly as far as kindness is concerned. In fact, traits like kindness and soft-heartedness are considered to be liabilities in this go-getter world.

Lady Macbeth wanted to see her husband Macbeth be anointed the king of Denmark in the Shakespearean play Macbeth. She was worried that he was “too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way” to the throne. Similarly, in our ruthless pursuit of ambitions, while trying to reach our goals by any means, fair or foul, we let our virtues like kindness fall by the wayside.

Kindness is a noble virtue which has been given to all living beings by god. American writer Mark Twain had said, “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” However, some of us are guilty of keeping this virtue suppressed and some do not want to share it beyond our immediate family, relatives and friends.

Showing kindness to others by way of kind words and deeds not only has a positive effect on the receiver, it also psychologically uplifts the giver. Hence, we should always strive to leave footprints of love and kindness wherever we go.

(Inner Voice comprises contributions from our readers The views expressed are personal)