KINDNESS IS A GREAT VIRTUE

Amina shafique
3 min readSep 13, 2022

An act of kindness has power to make the world a better place. Kindness changes everything. It can boost someone’s mood or confidence. It can make someone’s day better. Not only that, but it can make someone happy and or it can also teach people its importance.

Kindness plays a huge role in building up the personality of a person and not only it shapes you into a perfect human being, but it also inspires other people to change the way they look at others.

There are many ways one can embrace the act of kindness, but I have listed down a few important points we all should learn:

~ BY TREATING OTHERS WITH A SMILE

The way a person communicates with others can really affect one’s mood. We never know our littlest act can bring some positive changes in others. Always greeting others with a smile is the bare minimum we can do, but we never know if that one little smile makes the person happy. A smile can lighten one’s mood, so you never know how many hearts you could be changing by this little gesture.

~ BY ALWAYS GREETING OTHERS

Greeting others not only comes in acts of kindness, but also our manners. Manners define a person. The way you talk, listen, communicate with other people matters a lot. Sometimes people are really holding onto us, but we disappoint them with not giving much attention. Be there for other people. Greeting others helps us to communicate with others at a personal level. Sometimes there is not much that we can do, but this little act of kindness may have a positive impact on others.

~ BY LIVING A LITTLE ROOM FOR CHARITY

Donations and charity are something particularly important that we should carry out on our daily basis. Not everyone gets to live a perfect, luxurious life. Some people hardly make both ends meet to earn a good living and live hand to mouth. People are working a lot harder to earn a good living, and there are many deserving people who need charity and donations. We should take a little percentage of our income and give it out to the needy and deserving people.

~ BY EXPRESSING EMPATHY

As they say, empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. If we will not be there for others, then who will be. No matter what one is going through. We should be always there to console broken souls. There are lives that are still lacking. People are living a miserable life. At the end of the day, one’s words can bring a huge change in some stressed minds.

~ BY BEING THERE FOR OTHERS

Sometimes asking others for helps turns into a guilt. We often find it difficult, considering it as our weakness and the last place we could bury our sorrows too. But it really does work a lot. Sharing your problems with people one is close to bring an enormous difference because sometimes all we need is a safe hiding place that we could hold on too just to escape from the life.

~ BY BEING A GOOD LISTENER

One thing what keeps most people from not sharing their problems with others is having a feeling that our problems do not matter, which is wrong, problems are a part of life. What matters is how one stops them from getting on one’s nerves. Be a good listener to others, cause sometimes people are really holding onto us. Our one gesture could relieve someone at the end of a tiring day.

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