It all starts within, say celebrities this World Kindness Day which was on Sunday. We are often very kind to others, but we turn harsh when ...
It all starts within, say celebrities this World Kindness Day which was on Sunday. We are often very kind to others, but we turn harsh when it comes to ourselves. Celebrities share instances of when they were harsh with themselves and how they take care of their needs now.
Shehzad Shaikh
On World Kindness
Day I would like to say that Kindness is the most important thing in the world.
Learning to be kind is something that you learn from the people around you,
from your family, friends, and your experiences. I have had various experiences
and always had the best kind of people around me and I think I will sound
pompous if I say I'm a kind person but I like to do whatever I can to help
others around me. Yes, I guess in the entertainment industry everyone helps one
another. I think Covid has taught us to be human and Kindness matters.
Anuradha Singh
It has not been
long but I can say it's been 6 to 7 years since I was kind to myself. I was not
cruel to myself before this but then the problems began where I was forced to
give less importance to myself. At such times, we think adjusting is important
keeping what other people want in mind. But then, gradually, I learnt that
there is a very thin line between self-love and being selfish. When you are
kind to yourself, you love yourself. That's self love. And there's a
misunderstanding that if we think about ourselves and we're kind to ourselves,
then probably people will think we're selfish. But now I have understood this
thin line.
Priya Paramita Paul
Self-abuse is not being kind to yourself, which I realised when I was attending a workshop on abuse. So, we all talk about how someone
can abuse. It can be domestic violence, exploitation, harassment, and a lot
of things but there are many times we abuse ourselves. We are not kind and
sacrifice our choices just to satisfy someone else. Kindness does not mean
harming yourself. The ultimate definition of kindness is "being selfish to
me and selfless to others". Some of the examples I have given in
self-abuse are when we overeat so that the food should not get wasted. We can
use that food to give it to someone else, dogs, animals etc. That is the time
we are abusing our bodies. When we're wearing uncomfortable clothes, we are
overworking. Every time we go to a restaurant, we ask others what they want to
eat rather than asking ourselves what we want to eat. Even if we don't like it,
we adjust because we don't want to throw that food away. But what if we don't
enjoy the food? So these are small things that lead to an abusive body and
again, as per the law of attraction, when you abuse yourself, you attract abuse
from others and it always starts from the self. When I realised these things, I
started being kind to myself. Started taking care of me in everything. If
people need me I'm always there but not at the cost of sacrificing myself.
Shaan Mishra
Kindness is a very big word in itself. People pretend that they are kind but are they genuinely kind? I see people show kindness but the next moment you get to know their real selves. No matter how much you pretend that you are kind, it comes in front of everyone if you are not true to your heart. In our entertainment industry, I see this a lot and feel sad also because the other person is just pretending to be kind. Just to be in the limelight and be in the news, they show kindness, without meaning it, which is wrong. The place where I come from, my parents, my guru ji,are the only person you should not be kind to because if you don't do that, you will never be able to extend your limits and stretch your and the people around me have taught me that no matter how much you achieve in your life, being kind is extremely important. Kindness comes from your nature, education, what you have seen and grown up and how your journey has been. I just request everyone to have a helping nature, not to have grudges for others or pull each other down. If you want to go fast, go alone but if you want to go far, go together.
Nikhil Nanda
I disagree with the
statement that you have to be kind to yourself. You should not be kind only to yourself otherwise you will never be able
to extend your limits and stretch your own benchmarks. For your improvement,
you cannot be kind to yourself all the time. But, yes, you need to be kind to
every other living being and the first act of kindness I think that any human
being can do is to turn vegetarian. Stop eating any meat because we are killing
living animals and eating them. We need to stop that. That's the basic and
first act of kindness.
Arun Mandola
What I learnt is
Kindness doesn’t come automatically. Sometimes you are born with kindness and
sometimes it should develop with practice. Kind people are all over the world
and because of those people this universe is working. When this kindness will
end this world will end. I never am kind to myself because when I am kind to
myself then maybe I become weak but yes I am always kind to other people. I am
always hard on myself. Kindness should be for others not for yourself. It’s
like trees cannot eat their own fruits but other people can eat those fruits,
so how trees are contributing to this world. Kindness is like that fruit
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