Kindness

There is a saying, coined by a writer exactly my age, "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty".

I don't agree!

There is even a "Random Acts of Kindness Day" as an unofficial holiday celebrated every September 1 in New Zealand where people are asked to do random acts of kindness for strangers or people they know.

Random?! On one day a year?! What are people doing the rest of the time!?

Kindness is something that can pervade a whole lifetime. Given the choice, and most people have the choice most of the time, why would anyone want to do anything else?