My friend asked a question...

[yinepus_brat]

A dear friend posted a question on her lj, asking a simple question. One that has had me perplexed for two days now, trying to come up with the answer. Her question was about kindness. A single kind act, one of the kindest I'd ever witnessed. Or if not the act, then someone kind that I know.

And I'm stumped. Why? Because I'm not sure how to classify it. And when I think about it, my mind goes suddenly blank. Kindness as to when my roomie Becky found a hurt squirrel and brought it home and helped it heal rather than to walk on by and let nature take it's course?

Kindness as in Coll rescuing my from my ex, inviting me to live with her last year and getting me out of a wicked bad situation?

Kindness as in watching someone in a busy ER take a few extra minutes and hold an old man's hand An old man who had the shakes and was hallucinating. But they held his hand so that he knew there was something real in the midst of all the madness, just to help him hang on a little longer until the medication started working?

Kindness as in running out of oil and out of nowhere suddenly having friends drop off a trailer full of wood to burn in the woodstove so you and your roomates wouldn't freeze in the middle of winter?

I've seen it, witnessed it done a million times in a million ways, both large and small. And yet trying to focus on a single time, or the single solitary most kind act ever witnessed? I can't seem to do it.

Strange, huh? Ebonbird, hon. I'm still trying, honest I am.

Comments

[jessierarr.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's strange. Sometimes, to a lot of people, being kind to others is what comes naturally to them and it is THESE people who keep my faith in the human race. I'm one of those people who believe if you can do something for another person -- why not do it? Unfortunately, I've spent too much time watching other people trying to destroy eachothers' lives -- so when I see someone do something for another, it's a little more noticeable for me.

I can see why you're stumped ... because really, there's too many things and even the most SIMPLEST acts of kindness in our eyes could be the most wonderful for another person. It is hard to try and look at one.