Everyone wants to be the same thing when he grows up: a philanthropist.
No matter how he gets there, no matter what skills she chooses to exploit, the ultimate dream of every individual is to earn enough power to become an administrator of resources in her community.
Some want to be rich and famous, some prefer to be monastic and aloof, but everyone shares the same death bed wish: to feel a calm, certain sense of emotional credit for helping other people.
Imagine a world in which simple courtesies, kind words, and public reassurances create peace.
This is not hippie delirium. This is social science.
Think back to elementary school, watching a single drop of red dye, food coloring, diffuse throughout a bowl of water, making it blush pink. This is how kindness spreads.
One day, we might define and recognize love for what it is: a real, tangible, and ultimately quantifiable measure of energetic exchange between living things. Until then, we can only calculate kindness, showing empathy for those less fortunate, knowing hypocrisy is the greatest sin.
Please remember your own childhood dream: to be a part of something good; to be on the winning team; to be the hero of your own story.
And choose to listen in, to give your days at least this one, small dose of human kindness.
All you have to do- in order to join the movement, shift the conversation, and change the world- is follow a public habit of kindness on social media and comment @MadDogtheMonk.
If you like something she says, share it. If you disagree with something she says, exercise gentility when you refute her.
With loving honesty, you will become a leader, affecting those around you, being the drop of brilliant color urgently needed in this digital age of shadow politics.