The Kindness Chip

There are people who are not equipped to choose happiness, like they’ve never felt happiness in their previous lifetimes at all. They take pride in making other people’s lives miserable. That's where they find temporary excitement…empty…dark. They are to me, the saddest beings to ever walk the earth. Contantly misunderstood, always feeling like the victim .. never smiling…always angry…always hurting…inside… hating everyone and everything around them. They bite your hand when you try to reach out for them. Sometimes, they lure you into thinking they need your help until you’re trapped… tsk. tsk. tsk.

It is always a choice, like I keep saying. We can always choose to be happy. We can also choose to go the other direction, and be miserable like hell and you always get what you put out. Karma, good…bad…it all comes back to you, eventually. Which makes you wonder why some people choose to be angry, miserable, detached. I'm easily drawn to kindness and easily turned off by sour souls. But no matter how tempting, i don’t easily turn away. I try and try to see if they will ever find that kindness chip in them..which i believe, is basic to the human make-up. Even the psychologically challenged would still have that chip in them, corrupted.. but still in there. When people say or do mean things, it’s a reflection of how they really feel inside... rotten. And they need a lot more of your care and understanding than you can ever imagine. You won’t hear them ask for it but their anger is the loudest cry for help they can ever express.

Some of my friends think i’m being gullible and weak when i do this. I don’t know. But this i do know, i would want to be given the same amount of compassion, the benefit of the doubt, the trust that it is inherent in me to turn things around and redeem myself. I cannot expect people to react the same way i would. True. But i still really do believe that we all have it in us to choose to do good, to choose to be kind, to sincerely not want to hurt another human being’s person…another human being’s feelings…even when provoked.

I believe in the human spirit. I am a big fan of that too. And no matter how disappointing some people can be sometimes… we shouldn’t
lose hope and faith in and for them. Imagine how dark this world would become, if we all gave up on each other. You can call me a sap, a
push-over, a weak @#$&%!! but i choose to use the chip and be run over by a truck than refuse to use the chip and be the one driving
the truck… then again… maybe it’s just me.