11/05/2023
In the last few weeks, I’ve found myself sinking deeper and deeper into the dark pit of despair, helplessness and loss of faith in humanity. This emerging lack of belief in the good in people is the worst for me to handle - I genuinely love people and I live for people, seeking to see the best in them. I have always believed that unconditional faith in humankind is empowering and that kindness is contagious - little kind deeds provoke bigger and more powerful acts of kindness, until the overall amount of good starts to overflow and prevails over the hatred and the evil.
These days it may seem that evil is out there to win and that our little bursts of empathy, love, kindness and goodness are getting lost miserably among the overwhelming senses of hatred, fear and despair. I feel this way a lot lately. I feel this way until I make a conscious effort and force myself to switch my focus. This is very hard to do because there’s so much nastiness circulating around us lately that all we may see is violence, hatred and pain. Yet, when I do manage to switch my focus, I see goodness and kindness all around. People from all corners of the world reach out and bring me to tears with their kind words of love and support. All these people, whose lives I, or someone else, touched, often without even knowing it, all people who were supported by other people in moments of pain and who now want to give back and bring love and support to those who hurt, all these people are now there.
Kindness is contagious and it is reciprocal. One good word leads to another and one kind deed, hug, supportive look or smile produce many more of those. There are so many people who are there for us right now and who want to hug us and to relieve our pain. I invite myself and all of you to try and switch our focus a bit. Let’s share little glimpses of kindness, hope and love we see from the outside world in the comments to this post. Let’s keep reminding ourselves that good will prevail simply for the fact that it is always there and that it is never going away. We just need to continue seeing it in the most difficult of times.
