"From now on
your kindness will lead you to success."
SNARKY RESPONSE:
And "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." Yeah, that
little comment will likely get me struck by lightning.
Or, "no good
deed goes unpunished." Ouch! Okay, I'll stop!
From now on your kindness will lead you to success.
So, seriously,
the fortune cookie sage has handed me an old adage and attached a carrot. The
Golden Rule is a universal maxim to which most of us aspire. However, when the
act is not spontaneous, but must be actively chosen, there is that tiny bit of
self that wonders why, what's in it for me? And here is where the fortune
cookie sage dangles that carrot—because kindness will lead me to success. Tiny bit
of self is hereby appeased.
However, I must
ask, is kindness with an ulterior motive truly kindness? This is perhaps were
the fortune cookie sage shows his true "sageness" because he does not
explain what act(s) of kindness or what kind of success. Not knowing means you
cannot be selective in your kindness but must be kind in all possible
instances. And in the end, I believe, kindness is its own reward in that
momentary (or longer) sense of warmth and connectedness which is what we all
crave, is it not?
Makes ya' kinda
go hmmm, doesn't it?
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