What kind of kind are you?
How do you evaluate your own level of kindness and how do others evaluate you?
Is there a universal standard or metric that one can use for such an evaluation or is it basically a perception that hinges on a situation or more?
There are kind greetings, words, gestures, deeds and many other forms of kindness but the general use of kind as an adjective to describe a person may be misleading!
Does the use of the comparative terms kinder and kindest imply that there is a scale for measuring out the level of kindness?
Often times people associate kindness to naïveté and on other occasions to stupidity and/or weakness of character. Does that perception reflect a less kind assessment of the person being judged?
Let us not forget that “unkindness” can also be construed as the opposite of kindness and therefore, as an adjective, may suffer from the same ambiguity that “kindness” does! Note that an unkind word or behavior may be necessary to rectify or resolve a problem or a situation.
Some people derive more joy from giving than taking. Does that make them kinder than the ones whose joy emanates from receiving?
How about the kindest of them all? Is there a fair competition that leads to crowning an individual as kindest of them all?
As a challenge, why don’t you think about the many sides of kindness and let me know what kind of thoughts you have on this matter 😃.
Kindest regards to all 😃.
How do you evaluate your own level of kindness and how do others evaluate you?
Is there a universal standard or metric that one can use for such an evaluation or is it basically a perception that hinges on a situation or more?
There are kind greetings, words, gestures, deeds and many other forms of kindness but the general use of kind as an adjective to describe a person may be misleading!
Does the use of the comparative terms kinder and kindest imply that there is a scale for measuring out the level of kindness?
Often times people associate kindness to naïveté and on other occasions to stupidity and/or weakness of character. Does that perception reflect a less kind assessment of the person being judged?
Let us not forget that “unkindness” can also be construed as the opposite of kindness and therefore, as an adjective, may suffer from the same ambiguity that “kindness” does! Note that an unkind word or behavior may be necessary to rectify or resolve a problem or a situation.
Some people derive more joy from giving than taking. Does that make them kinder than the ones whose joy emanates from receiving?
How about the kindest of them all? Is there a fair competition that leads to crowning an individual as kindest of them all?
As a challenge, why don’t you think about the many sides of kindness and let me know what kind of thoughts you have on this matter 😃.
Kindest regards to all 😃.
Hani Badawi
November 17, 2017
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