Being Kind Not Just For The Sake Of It

What irrational topic is this?, this was most probably your first reaction, isn’t kindness something that should be practiced by everyone without the need of being told. Well….not everyone is like that and even both you and I can have our moments where we do not display our best behaviour and personally I believe that it is completely natural for any human being to do so, but what I’d like to give some emphasis here is being kind without expecting anything in return, a typical question that could arise is, why we should not ‘expect anything’ in return and that is exactly what I want to explain in the following paragraphs.

Being kind not just for the sake of it is the best thing you can do as a human being, it does not matter who is at the other end, an animal, insect or even Mother Earth herself, coming back to human beings, lets just take a hypothetical situation into consideration here, you being the kind person you are, helps someone with something and you expect them to repay you for it, sadly however, when you needed a favour, that person could not help you with it and I personally do not think you should hold a grudge against them for it and it is exactly in a situation like this when you will thank yourself for not being kind just for the sake of it, it does not matter whether the person just refuses to help you or they are actually not in a situation to help you out, it personally will not matter to you because you are not expecting anything back and if you were, then you will obviously will be unhappy. I could possibly go ahead just listing the benefits but that will just be ironic of what I said in the beginning; expecting nothing in return, we are not doing this for the benefits.

Now for the best part, none of what I mentioned above happens frequently, people around the world are very kind in general and will always make sure that they are there for you but all that I have written above is for that one situation where you feel helpless or cheated on. Before I conclude let me tell you something, think about that time you were kind to someone who is underprivileged, an animal or even picked up a piece of plastic and disposed of it properly, If you can introspect a little into this, you will realise that these were the best deeds you could have possibly done and in all these situations what is common is that you were not expecting anything in return.