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The Season of Kindness
it’s time for us to start being kind to the people who can’t do anything to improve our lives
it’s just the way narcissists
do business
kindness isn’t transactional
~ it’s meant to be transformative
kindness isn’t a contract
~ it’s meant to be a stringless kite
I’ve come to discover that
kindness is the mother
to millions of beautiful daughters
and she gave every single one of her
long-haired children the same name:
“Empathy”
and now the daughters
of kindness are marching
and now they have
become a movement
and now the ground
is shaking beneath you
and now empathy’s
choir is singing
and now the sky
is raining cherry blossoms
and now it’s your
turn to join them
and now you are with
them as they march
and now you feel your numbness leave
and now you cry for strangers
and now your fists have become cups
and now you are human again
and now everybody is your neighbor
and now you can feel
it coursing through you
~ the desire to forgive your enemy
and you’ll never go back
to the terrible normal you
had gotten so used to
because now you have joined
the flower legion of marching
compassion
because now you have let
Empathy and her millions
of sisters become your
guides
because now you recognize that
the season of kindness has
only just begun
because now you remember
that you were created
to be the bringer of light
and now the cherry blossoms
are everywhere
— John Roedel
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