Be Kind Every Day, For It Is More Rewarding Than Money

Do not hesitate to repeat to yourself the following regularly: “ Be kind every day, whether to yourself or to others”.

Kindness is the best investment you can make, so don’t wait any longer to be bursting with good feelings, good experiences, and good consequences.

However, sometimes these considerations get lost behind something far less important and transcendent in life: money.

Recently, we have learned through the media that a woman has honored the strange promise she made to her husband before he died by burying all his fortune with him.

She deposited all of her late husband’s money into an account, and placed a check for the amount of her fortune in his coffin so that he could have it with him when he woke up.

We will never know if this rich deceased will one day have the opportunity to go to the bank to withdraw his money, but what we do know, however, is that the metaphor of this little tale is enriching for us, because they allow us to re-envision the way we manage our life.

There is life before death

During an interview, we once asked Eduardo Punset, a great scientific disseminator known by most people for his program “Redes” (“Réseaux”, in French), what was his favorite sentence or quote, this to whom he replied that he once read a sentence in a New York subway station that impressed him.

Here is the sentence:   “there is life before death”. Simple and disconcerting.

In fact, this sentence is one of those rare sentences which would have survived the methodical and systematic doubt brought to light by one of the greatest rationalist philosophers, namely René Descartes.

According to the great thinkers, in the Western culture in which we evolve, there is a certain agreement drawing its origins in very precise historical periods such as Greece and its classical philosophy, or the birth of Christianity and the influence that that would have had on philosophy.

From the need for control that all religions show, has emerged a Christianity that sees life as a preparation for death, for meeting God.

It is about surviving in order to be able to truly live thereafter, to go away in order to obtain an ultimate, final and eternal reward.

What has Heaven left us?

In the 20th century, religion lost much of its power, of its ability to show the way forward, and to be listened to.

However, in our way of seeing the world, there are still remnants of this way of seeking our essence.

We are still looking towards the horizon, educating our children to study, prepare for adulthood, learn lots of things, earn lots of money and look like the ant rather than the grasshopper from the famous children’s fable.

“The Cicada, having sung
All summer, Was
found very destitute
When the north wind came:
Not a single little piece
Of fly or worm.
She went to cry famine
At the Ant her neighbor,
begging her to lend her
Some grain to stay
Until the new season.
“I will pay you,” she said to him, “
Before the Ear, animal faith,
Interest and principal. ”
The Ant is not a lender:
This is its least flaw.

What were you doing during hot weather ?
She said to this borrower.
– Night and day to all comers
I was singing, please.
– You were singing ? I am glad.
Well! dance now. ”

is that work pays, because working is better than dreaming.

There is life before life

Psychologists speak of existential crisis, of very specific stops on the path of life that we make at certain times,  during which we look at our feet, and where we feel overwhelmed by vertigo, because we have no not used to being aware of the fact that reality is in fact a reflection of time itself.

“I’m not interested in being the richest man in the cemetery… What interests me is going to bed every night knowing that we have done something wonderful”

-Steve Jobs-

So that would say more than the phrase of the New York subway: there is a life before what one thinks to be life.

Before you know a lot, before you have a lot of money, before you get married, before you retire or have children.

There is a life before the moment we wake up in the morning, and this life is a series of moments which must not follow the conception of paths and stages which religion has one day established and on which even today, without knowing it, we adhere in spite of ourselves.

So, the best is to show kindness every day, because the latter is more rewarding than money.

It is in fact a question of reaping what one sows; what is better than planting kindness to reap wealth? The answer is clear: without good feelings, at the end of our life, we will have… NOTHING.

This is why it is essential not to stop repeating to yourself the following thing: “show kindness every day, for it is she and not money that gives us access to the true wealth of life”.

Live our life fully; this will be our real reward.