# @breyeschow on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CLxQQxYB2di
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18935139-breyeschow-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-02-26T20:55:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bruce Reyes-Chow (@breyeschow) — https://gondola.cc/breyeschow

## Caption

"To be kind is to accept that each person is a created and complex human being — and to treat them as if you believe this to be true."

My grandfather was one of the kindness people I have ever known and it is because of his legacy that I wrote, "In Defense of Kindness." While I hope to challenge the many negative assumptions about kindness, at the end of the day, it is a choice about how will live and love in the world.

I'll be sharing more excerpts and endorsements over the next few months, here is here just. taste. 

#InDefenseOfKindness will be released March 16, 2021 and all the links are in my bio.
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Kindness is not a journey for the meek and mild. For those of us who have been steeped in ways of being that are not kind, it takes tremendous energy to purge ourselves of patterns and behaviors that are not kind. Every day we have to choose to commit to live out kindness that day.

Yes, choosing kindness will be exhausting and overwhelming.

Yes, choosing kindness will draw mockery and dismissal.

Yes, choosing kindness will create tension, conflict, and discomfort.

But…

Choosing kindness is an act of courage that challenges a worldview driven by hatred, dishonesty, and dehumanization.

Choosing kindness is about living a life of integrity in which we daily work at resisting the seductiveness of wealth, success, and self-preservation.

Choosing kindness is life-giving. For when we choose to 
see and respond to the human dignity of any one person, we 
are all given a little more hope.

And finally, if we do not continue to choose kindness together, can you imagine how much worse the world will become? The least we can do in response to and in gratitude for all those kindness giants who have paved the way is to do the same for the generations to come.

#kindness

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Reyes-Chow | @breyeschow | https://gondola.cc/breyeschow | Writer/Author |

## Tags

kindness, indefenseofkindness

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