By Nataly Kogan — 2018
For most of my life, I clung to the belief that I wasn’t happy because I “just wasn’t wired that way.”
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The definition of kindness is “the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.” In a perfect world, this is a quality we would wish to bestow upon ourselves and hope others also possess. But why does it seem so hard?
We’ve heard it many times before. This person is kind. But, what do we mean by kindness and how can we tell if someone is kind? What are the characteristic traits of behavior?
There are certain traits that kind people have, and they may not even realize it. Since they are naturally kind-hearted, behaving in the way that they do comes easily to them.
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