Kindness & the Unkind

“Don’t be kind to the unkind. The unkind sees kindness as weakness.”

While most people are inherently empathetic and kind, and their natural tendency is to be kind to others; there are some opportunistic people that will take advantage of one’s kindness. This is even more evident in familial, in romantic, and even in business relationships where kindness is viewed as an opportunity for the unkind to take advantage of the kind and empathetic.

Additionally, recent constant social-media condonement of kindness as a virtue is incorrectly glorifying excessive kindness for others as a reflection of being a moral and a good person.

Before you decide to be kind to others, you must first be kind to your own Self. If you can’t be kind to your own Self but you are kind to others, you are then becoming a people-pleaser who opens the door to be taken advantage of.

Only be kind to others because you can, not because you want acceptance and validation.