Be Kind- In Hell

The road to hell is paved with the "Be Kind" hashtag. What is wrong with suggesting others be kind? The world has become ruder as civility fell by the wayside, replaced with consumerism.

We should return to feeling like citizens rather than consumers. Certain marketers say we are all consumers. That is annoying as High School Religion class where they said "Everyone has sex". They meant a sexuality, not that they were performing intercourse. What can we do for the greater good opposed to spending more?

Is the economy really strong with record credit card debt? Pay your cards every month in full. What issue do I have with "Be kind"? No matter what you do, someone can mutter that phrase and it negates a lifetime of good deeds.

My sister suggested I visited a relative in a retirement community. The relative in question lived in a far off community that was hard to get into and difficult to find addresses. She said I should visit her "As a kindness".

Not only did she hold the S in "Kindness" to sound like she was letting the air out of tires or turning into one of those snake creatures from Conan The Barbarian- I was not expecting this from the woman whom I more of less introduced the concept of kindness to when she was a baby.

Shaming me into visiting a retiree- I would visit her. Not to fill some kindness quota. We had a nice exchange and it would be the last time I saw her. Had she lived in a closer retirement home I would have visited more frequently. So it goes.

Today at work I noticed projects that needed completing. Isn't that "Kind"? Management would rather I leave and vaguely have a supervisor do the work eventually.

Supervisors have enough to do. If I can lighten the load, it would be wrong not to. The prospect of saving fifty cents by having me leave work unfinished- take the hit. If they don't like that I am willing to do work and freeing others to do something else- guess who has the problem?

They hate me because I am responsible. What a foolish position to take. If they don't like that I assist others- it will never make sense. I don't do it to "Be kind." People act like that is a Christmas Club and their so called kindness will lead to something greater. Maybe it will, maybe it won't.

Do good for the sake of doing good. Not so you can announce it on social media. The "Be kind" crew constantly moves the goalposts. You can never do enough in their eyes and that defeats the purpose of using the hashtag. By now you should know hashtags are completely useless on LinkedIn.