KINDNESS by KR
Kylie Riordan
"What if the happiness we seek
isn’t wrapped in the gloss of gold,
or the image of a body whittled
into someone else’s idea of grace?
What if it’s in the simplest things…
a glance of understanding,
the quiet presence of a hand reaching out,
the soft echo of a smile that feels like home?
We’ve been sold a lie,
this illusion of a perfect life
where happiness is earned,
bought, or shaped into something
we can wear or consume.
But what if the truth is far simpler,
more sacred, more free?
Kindness, in its quiet unfolding,
never asks for anything in return…
it asks only that you be present,
that you see, that you offer,
that you breathe with the other.
And in that moment,
as your heart swells like the tide,
something ancient stirs…
a fire ignites from the inside,
not from a goal achieved or a scale’s number dropping,
but from a warmth that has always been there,
waiting to be poured out.
When you give yourself this way,
when you let compassion break through
like sunlight after a storm,
you touch something eternal…
not the fleeting buzz of a purchase,
not the hollow promise of “perfect,”
but the pulse of life itself.
We are not meant to buy happiness.
We are meant to give it…
to share it like wildflowers,
to weave it into the air we breathe.
And when we do, our hearts expand,
our souls dance in a rhythm older than time,
and we are free.
For kindness,
the kind that costs nothing and asks for nothing,
is the true magic,
the love that holds the world together,
and the secret to a life that is unfurling,
authentic, alive."
By Kylie R
