People who turned out genuinely kind despite a tough childhood didn’t learn kindness — they absorbed its absence so completely that its presence became the one thing they couldn’t withhold from anyone who needed it, not as a decision, but as the only response available to a person formed the way they were formed
I’ve noticed something about the kindest people I know. Almost none of them had it easy growing up. That might ...
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