Good day everyone here's is my entry for hive reachout prompt:
Some people grow up in a place where kindness is not normal....right? in that place, every single thing is struggle.....A person wakes up in the morning thinking about how to survive that day. Food, money, shelter, everything is hard....When a person lives like that for many years, the mind changes.
Kindness starts to look like a very biggggggggggg trap.
I remember a boy(chukwuemeka )in my area when I was younger.....The boy was always on the street picking scrap....He carried a big sack from morning till evening....He picked iron, plastic bottles, and emppty cans to sell. His clothes were dirty and his slippers were torn....One afternoon, a woman called him and offered him food and clean water. Instead of collecting the food, the boy stepped back.....He shouted at the woman and ran away with his sack......(Strange right) Later I understood. That boy had been chaased before by people who pretendded to help him but wanted to use him....So when real help came, he rejecteed it....He chose survivaal over kindness.
That is the main problemm..... A child who grew up hawking on the street, sleeping hungry, and working like an adult will build a wall around himself. He believes nobody can help him free of charge....In his mind, every help must have paymment....He cannot believe that someone can just be nice....Life has taught him that life is wickeed and survivaal is the only law.
A child raised in a stabble familly with love, care, and support will see kindness differently. That child knows how it feels to be cared for....If someone shows him love outside, he will recognize it and say thank you....He will not fear it.
But a child from a broken home, or a home where there is constant poverty, fighting, and neglect, will learn something else....That child learns to be independent too early. ...That child learns that parents are not always there....That child learns that trust is dangerous. So when genuinee love comes, fear enters.
I believe kindness should not stop because some people reject it....Kindness is still a strong force!!!!!! Even if a person pushes it away today, that act of kindness may stay in his memmory tommorrow....One day he will remember that someone tried to help.
So never stop being Kind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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