Where is Kindness after all?

One of the thoughts that frequently stream into your mind in Dubai is the whole issue of kindness....that elusive "do good" quality that has always been touted as a virtue second to none.....do we ever in the course of our hectic days and frenetic nights here in Dubai actually spare a thought for anyone else's misery - to helping an accident victim....to just go out and hand out bottles of water to those construction workers we are always ranting and raving about.....to give a total stranger a meal that you know would be their whole meal for the day......to go and spend one's birthday in the company of special needs children and take them gifts that bring out the wonder in their eyes. It would be so wonderful if instead of whining and whinging about the common grouses we deal with in our privileged life - oh yes, I did say privileged because believe me we are privileged if we have the pleasure of four meals, a roof over out heads and limbs and brains that work......and start to worry about what we could do to leave the world a better place than we found it. Not just banal philosophy.....something to think about!http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/spirit/inspiration/slideshow1_ss_phil_feature