Kindness Is Free

Teachers and parents throughout the world remind us kindness costs nothing. Compassion is both free and freeing. But, those same teachers and parents and preachers may not as directly mention that meanness risks losing everything you would care to feel positively healthy, and not quite so negatively overstuffed wealthy, Like anger and fear about loss, Like competitions in escalating bipolar hate and immigrant Othering, Like loss of cooperative control, Like loneliness, Like criminalization, judged degenerate, defective. We might borrow a chapter from the natural ecologist's textbook about walking the second cooperative win/win mile before anticipating win/lose meanness in climatic return. Meanness, intent to harm, rather than kindly heal, costs society, including privileged Straight White Fathers, and communities and families and individuals, everything good healthy prosperous promoting well-being, Like greed envy hate anger fear, A bundle of endless need to escape and shun and starve and dry up and heal to restore ecosystemic justice Where punishing egosupremacy continues to fail to motivate the hearts of thriving healthy kindness More redemptively co-invested in health and safety governing systems than competitively infested meanness, which costs everything, including loss of Left and Right cooperative multicultural enlightenment and sacred empowerment producing win/win co-invested kindness.