Tolstoy and the carpenter's work
Hello and greetings. This morning in my aimless wondering looking for inspiring messages I found the following quote: “The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.” – Leo Tolstoy That Leo feller was pretty smart. Generally, my approach is to start with kindness and stay that way as long as I can tolerate it. If you are playing the long game it is the best strategy, the problem is not everyone is playing the long game. Tolstoy's grand vision of the benefits of kindness do not always match people's goals and direction. I embrace a complicated universe and in a complicated universe the benefits of kindness are are matter of survival. If you have a simple universe bashing things with a blunt object is the path of least resistance and will result in a good enough ex...