Start from yourself.

Different people look at the world with different eyes. This makes us diverse. We perceive things differently. Yet, most of the time what I have observed is that most of us see things with the wrong lenses. Thus, what we perceive and interpret could end up being incorrect.

I wonder why people cannot be a little polite and pleasant to one another. Is a simple smile that doesn’t cost us anything very difficult to put on our faces? A greeting of Good Morning that hard to speak out. A gratitude word of thanks, is difficult to be uttered. We don’t need to necessarily know each other to do these things right? They say that Sri Lanka has the highest literacy rate in Asia. But I can never stop noticing how illiterate people behave.

I feel that people are gradually forgetting the qualities of humanity. The simple act of kindness and being empathetic has to be reminded from time to time. It doesn’t work that way, right? It has to start within one’s self.  We need to start loving ourselves and be kind to ourselves in order to act the same with others. We need to stop judging others for what they are or what they do. We need to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes before making any comments. These simple acts of kindness could make a great difference if all of us could do the same.

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