We have no idea what is going through a person’s mind. The way we speak to people will either build them up or cut them down. We see it each and every day how adults and children hurt each other with their words. We see it online where people put unkind comments on people’s posts but for what to make yourself feel better, make yourself feel smarter or are you just taking your own hurt out on them.
How would it make you feel if you heard a person’s mental health had deteriorated due to the onslaught of verbal abuse you said to them? How would it make you feel if that person went home, feeling worthless and feeling afraid that they have to go through the same abuse either online or again tomorrow in person?
What if that person had no strength left to face up to you or couldn’t build up the courage to tell someone else due to fear. We have to see it as our duty that people are not to be hurt in this way. Our mental health is in a crisis, depression, anxiety and suicide at an all-time high.
As Winston Churchill said “by swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed their stomach.” We were all born kind, all this abuse, unkindness and hatred is all learned from the people and the environments we put ourselves in. Kindness is the key in breaking this vicious cycle and kindness is the key to the future. There is no better feeling when you show kindness to another person and when you show kindness it will return to you in spades.
Make it a daily habit that you go out of your way in being kind to someone and when that person receives kindness they will be kind to someone else and so on having a ripple effect. If we don’t stand up for what’s right and do right, people’s mental health will continue to suffer.
Choose Caring and giving, choose happiness, choose putting smiles on people’s faces, choose love over hatred, choose a better you and choose life, a life where there is kindness
Our power will grow when the goodness of our hearts will combine together to life people out of the darkness they have fallen into. Be that person, make that stand and show kindness is the way to a better humanity.
