I have a resolution for the New Year, and beyond, to be kinder. It’s a resolution, a wish, a practice, a dream, and will be even more central to my way of life. I’m planning to change the world, starting with me, in the smallest and most gentle way with kindness, creating little ripples of care, respect and acceptance.
It will be magical…
I resolve to try to be kinder to myself, I resolve to try to be kinder in my role as daughter, sister, aunt, neighbour, friend, confidante, leader, manager, consultant, colleague, consumer, constituent, blogger, facilitator, learner, trainer… in every role.
I expect be fully occupied by the task, and growing.
I am indebted to a wonderful Facebook friend in Copenhagen, who inspired me by posting a status that included the latter part of this quote by Aldous Huxley:
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder”.
It is no more difficult than that, and I intend making kindness a sustained practice in keeping with the emergent global imperative for sustainability, and my own high dreams for a world I want to live in.
Happy New Year