Cloud and Kindness

Animal thoughts

Cloud: People always say kindness is a choice.

Me: It is.

Cloud: Maybe it shouldn't be.

Me:

Cloud: Hear me out.

Me: Go for it.

Cloud: Maybe kindness should be a place you just exist in. Maybe it should surround you and permeate you so much that it isn't something you choose to do; it's something you are.

Me: Like it's the norm. Like breathing.

Cloud: Or sleeping.

Me: Someone will argue about this.

Cloud: And they will be making the choice to get a dopamine rush out of arguing instead of just inhabiting their kindness. I worry for them, human.

Me: Me too, Cloud. Me too.

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