Being Kind

“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”

                                                          Anne Lamott

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I really like be right

Really

Like

Being right!

And when I am committed to this goal

I am robbed of my ability to be kind

I’ve thought about it

And decided this is true

In order for me to be right

Someone else has to be wrong

I have to be superior

The other has to be inferior

I have to impose my way

And the other has cede

After all

I am right

Right?

Ah, Lord

Rescue me from my need to be right

So that I can listen

And seek to understand

And lose my “superiority”

So that I can be kind