Sometime last year, I received a very generous gift and a note from someone. It read: ‘I may not say it always, but I mean it whenever I say it : Thank you for all the things you’ve done for me.’ As much as I liked the present, the note is what really touched me. […]
Kindness Begins With Me
November 13 is World Kindness Day. To celebrate this, I will be blogging about kindness over the next few days. Kindness Begins With Me There are two ways of interpreting this – one, that kindness must start with me being kind to others and two, I must start with myself. Today, I’m choosing to start […]
The Spirit of Abstraction #1000Speak
Without harking back to the ‘good old days’, because it’s entirely possible that the media brings us stories that would otherwise have been lost, but does it seem to you that we have all become much more insensitive to the suffering of others? The Spirit of Abstraction? Gabriel Marcel in his essay “The Spirit of […]
Kindness – A to Z of Self Leadership
While someone might define success as being able to achieve great heights in one’s chosen field, another might define a successful person as someone who ‘has left the world better than she found it’. No matter what your definition of success may be, does it have kindness factored in? I believe that self leadership calls […]
Kindness Wins #1000Speak #FridayReflections
Remember, on the 20th of February, a wonderful initiative called #1000Speak kicked off? It was during this that I reconnected with Galit Breen, a wonderful blogger. In her post for last month’s #1000Speak, Galit mentioned her experience with being bullied online and how indirectly it resulted in her writing a book. I had read about […]