the importance of the kindness

Kindness is one of the most important and fascinating qualities of our human experience.
It is gratifying to watch as humans share their love, generosity and good nature. It is sad that this quality seems to be most evident on our planet only when there is a crisis. That is when people easily reach out to one another with no barriers to race or color or religion. It is interesting that this quality lies dormant for much of our humanity other than at those times. It is as if kindness is to be used on certain occasions like an outfit that you wear on Sunday only. During the crisis it emerges in full force. As soon as the crisis is over many of these same people go back to being a person that is full of prejudice, anger and resentment.

How and why humanity can activate kindness at will and then conveniently put it away is a mystery. What is it about a crisis situation that awakens the kindness and compassion within us? It may be that when the crisis occurs whether it is physical, mental, emotional, financial or some universal catastrophe, it is an opportunity for humanity to awaken to its true nature which has kindness and compassion fully integrated. It is after the crisis is over that humanity must continue to pay attention and be aware of the importance of human kindness.