Kindness

[Louisabell]

Human interactions are meant to be catalyzing and I find that cultivating kindness in all interactions always give good results overall.

If only it was as easy to do this for the rest of us!

The way we are raised makes it difficult to differentiate in between being pleasant and being kind. And what makes it even more difficult to grasp is that being kind means you are also not unpleasant.

So how to tell someone a hard truth in a considerate and kind way without that being unpleasant? I get the feeling this is the work of eons.

Well I think pleasantness has more to do with what the party on the receiving end thinks. What do they perceive as pleasant in another? Usually this has to do with what is easy and pleasurable.

Kindness I feel is more to do with the person doing the act. The attitude and sentiment behind the action. And you can do something kind to another that may hit as unpleasant (like a hard truth) but to do it kindly would be to try to minimise the unpleasantness.