A plea for a little more kindness

After watching story after story lately on the news about the cruelty of people against people, I find myself angered and saddened at the same time. The unimaginable story of the three young men in New York who where beaten and cruelly tortured makes me sick. I am beginning to believe that we, as a human race, will be the destruction of ourselves because we have lost the understanding of kindness.

I know it seems too simple, but that really is what is happening. So many times a day I see examples of lack of courtesy and acts of meanness. Over and over, people seem to only regard themselves in grocery store lines, in parking lots, on highways and even at amusement parks. Is it really so hard to wait your turn, or to let another driver into your lane, or to take a parking space just a little farther away, or even to just put that shopping cart in the corral rather than putting it in the parking space next to you?

Parents, what are you teaching and modeling for your children? What happened to the adage, “Do unto others as you would have done to you? Life is hard; why do so many seem to want to make it that much harder? The simple solution is to not be mean. It really doesn't take much effort to be kind.

Cyndi Kehoe

Elk Grove Village