People practice life differently
Each person feels joy, feels sorrow, feels pain, experiences highs and lows, experiences insecurity and moments of being proud of themselves.
On paper...we all look relatively the same. Our strengths and weaknesses inked on paper do not differentiate if we practice life as a mom or dad, a student, daughter or son, a heterosexual or homosexual. Whether we are Jewish, Christian, agnostic or atheist. Our strengths and weaknesses don’t tend to highlight those.
Is it possible for society to be kind to others that practice life differently than they do? Is it?
In all honesty I try to lead with kindness. I attempt to have kindness as my go to when interacting with anyone...no matter how we each practice life.
I don’t have to agree with how you practice life to hold the door open for you. I don’t have to agree with your stance on your life and ideals to let you go a head of me in a line.
No matter how you practice life I know you experience joy and sorrow just like I do. I know that if you spend a summer evening in Minnesota you will get bitten by mosquitos just like I do. I know when someone you care for breaths their last breath on earth you cry and grieve just like I do when I lose someone I love.
I may not practice life like you. I may not believe what you believe...but I feel what you feel. I feel sorrow, I feel joy, I feel anger, I experience frustration and I experience satisfaction.
Is it possible we can focus on being kind to the people and world around us?
I find being kind takes no more effort than being mean. Speaking kindly takes no more time than speaking harshly and treating a person with respect is as simple as disrespecting.
We each have the opportunity to change from moment to moment. In this moment I hope reading the words ‘penned’ here will cause you to continue down a path of kindness or perhaps it is an opportunity to make a turn to kindness.
We practice life differently, but we experience the same ‘feels’...let’s remember that.