EDITORIAL: USE WORLD KINDNESS DAY TO OVERCOME DISSENSION

EDITORIAL: USE WORLD KINDNESS DAY TO OVERCOME DISSENSION

Today, November 13, is World Kindness Day, a day on which to promote kindness throughout the world, regardless of one’s religious, political, racial or other background.

Promulgated by the World Kindness Movement as recently as in the year 1998, World Kindness Day presents us with the opportunity to reflect upon one of the most important and unifying human principles: kindness.

It is a day that is devoted to the positive potential of both large and small acts of kindness, in seeking to promote and diffuse this crucial quality that brings people of all kinds together.

The underlying purpose of World Kindness Day as outlined by the World Kindness Movement is “to highlight good deeds in the community, focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness which binds us all”.

Indeed the stated objective of World Kindness Day is to highlight good deeds within the community, focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness which binds us all.

Kindness is a fundamental part of the human condition which bridges the divides of race, religion, politics, gender, commercial affiliations – and whatever else which seems to, or can, be divisive.

In other words: this is a day that encourages individuals to overlook boundaries, race and religion – thanks to the World Kindness Movement, an international non-governmental organization; a coalition of the good-willing which is without any and all prejudicial or partisan affiliations.

World Kindness Day this year comes at a time when humanity and economies are still reeling from the devastating viral global Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the November 3 elections in the United States whose results threaten to split asunder the world’s econo-military powerhouse.

To one and all, we reiterate earnestly embracing kindness: mutual compassion which binds us together – and which has the power to bridge gaps within and between/among nations.