Kindness Counts

The one asset that beats intelligence, athleticism, humor, and beauty mashed together, is kindness. I believe that personalities grow from the ground up, and the basis for

Kindness counts

maximizing this spoken-of growth in life, is to be kind. Consider this situation.

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Once upon a time there was an actor named Isaac Newton. He was tall, strong and had perfectly straight, white teeth. He attracted a massive paparazzi, for all thought he was gorgeous, talented and intelligent. One day, he was walking down 5th Avenue in New York City when he encountered an old mendicant. She had scroobly hair and crooked yellow teeth. She kindly asked Isaac, who had made a colossal fortune from acting, if he had any spare change. However, Isaac’s miser persona made him clench his fists and kick the old beggar. She cowered in pain. Her spine crunched under the force of Isaac’s foot and austere blows.

The following day, the front page of  The New York Times, published an article on Isaac’s cruel encounterance. The whole world read this article, online, in the print magazine, and through gossip. Meteorically, many dropped their connections with the infamous actor. Isaac Newton’s 100 million followers on Instagram reduced to a mere 3 people; his mom, his dad, and great-great grandmother.

Yet Isaac felt no sense of loss. He had absolutely no clue how much society despised his superior attitudes towards those in poverty and he continued to act in like manners. He decided to create a line of shoes, branding his name. Sooner or later, he launched his brand. However, no one showed any interest his shoes. Resurrections of him kicking and nearly breaking the mendicant flashed through people’s minds.

Desperate to make money through his shoe line, Isaac tried to convince the world that his shoe line was indeed the best. On his website, he modeled in them, photoshoot after photoshoot, attempting to promote a better reputation. Indeed, the company continued to fail and soon, was shut down by Newton himself.

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Even though Isaac Newton was one of the hottest, most successful, fittest and talented

actors, no one paid any heed to his brand of shoes. Why? Because he was cruel just one time. This actually says a lot about our perceptions of people. We behold such high standards of each other, to an extent where second chances are often times ungivable. Being kind is one example. It does not offer second chances. So you see? Kindness counts.

Post Script. Isaac Newton was actually a physicist and mathematician. He defined  a force.