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IF WRAPPED IN KINDNESS
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| "Being kind comes from caring enough of other's wellbeing, that you are willing from your heart to help, and the world needs more kindness than ever." |
This pictures were from 2 years ago when I visited this beautiful homey café around Sanur with my friends. Wore this baby pink velvet overall and a white blouse with flower embroidery just suited the garden-themed ambiance of this place. In this post, I am going to write some of my brain-dumps. Being kind is not synonymous with being nice. This is something I realized after an event that intrigued me and changed the way I look at people. I might be ridiculous, bit opinioned or a rampant hyperbole about the differences of kindness and niceness. Some people put their optimistic and nice attitude that just didn't feel sincere, there is something behind the put up acts. And it just didn't connect with my attitude about kindness. Fake and unnecessary, but... well, a nice gesture. I could have been mean, could have been spiteful, but no, I am nothing like those who have hurt me. To have compassion, to understand and after all what matters matter, and what doesn't will never. Even if along this journey, not everyone is equally kind that won't stop me from being equally kind to everyone. That's when I learned to always choose the kindest thing to do.
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The kind person is strong, the nice one might be not. The kind one is selfless, the nice person is selfish. The kind person feels empathy, the nice one maybe narcissistic. The core of the kind person is love, while nice person mostly is fear or guilt. While niceness might be a way someone to climb the social ladder, kindness is how we lift up others. Kindness stands up for itself, it is true to itself. It will continue to be kind, moving with grace, even when it isn't agreed with or deserved, or ever wanted. It doesn't wear out, in part because it doesn't require the constant effort of pretending to be nice. So, I think to myself, to always aim to be kind, not nice. Like a Japanese song "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta nara", open up the curtain every morning and wrap yourself up, in the kindness of quiet sun-filtered leaves; in the courtyard after the rain wrap yourself up, in the kindness of the gardenia scent. If wrapped in kindness, enveloped in tenderness, everything reflected in the eyes and all you can see is the message.
A genuine one.
❤
xx
Wearing: SOMEDAY baby pink velvet overall, white blouse, CUSTOMIZED white sandal
Photos by: Suwita Sari/Rizki Mega Aprilia
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