What about a smile? What about noticing a job well done? The holding open of a door? A favor rendered? The choice to invite, to pick up the tab for lunch, to compliment, to encourage, to volunteer, to hand your box of leftovers to the man begging on the street corner, or give your spouse a bouquet of flowers? You never know what low moment you might be rescuing a person from. You never know how they’ll pay this forward. But in a sense, it doesn’t matter—at least that’s not why we do it. We do it because it’s the discipline we practice. We do it because being kind is the more courageous thing
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