{"id":3720,"date":"2025-05-30T22:04:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2025-05-30T22:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:04:51","slug":"meerkat-prompts-the-concept-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=3720","title":{"rendered":"Meerkat Prompts: The Concept of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspired (not for the first time) by the frankly wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/rawiwoof.writeas.com\/in-the-maze-of-thoughts-being-unkind-makes-everyone-poorer\">Rawen<\/a>, and also by the always-entertaining <a href=\"https:\/\/furry.engineer\/@soatok\">Soatok<\/a>, I thought I could write a post about the concept of kindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being kind seems to be a dying trait. As per the example Rawen shares in his post, it seems those who are privileged do not appreciate what they&#8217;ve got, and nor do they value the work and efforts of those they deem beneath them. It is a pity that many of those in positions of power and authority have forgotten what kindness looks like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kindness does not have to be a big, bold act. It can be something small. Saying thank you to a waiter, holding the door open for someone, treating the street cleaner or janitor with respect for working hard, none of these things require effort, but they can brighten someone else&#8217;s day. There&#8217;s never a need to be a blustering, aggressive, posturing asshole. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To look at it another way, if someone comes into my shop, full of anger, and throwing a tantrum, or treating me and my colleagues with contempt, I am not at all inclined to treat that person with respect, though there is the classic saying about killing with kindness, meeting hostility with a friendly word. Still, I will go the extra mile for friendly, good-hearted people, far more so than people who are rude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=122\">Back to Meerkat Prompts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired (not for the first time) by the frankly wonderful Rawen, and also by the always-entertaining Soatok, I thought I could write a post about the concept of kindness. Being kind seems to be&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-prompts","tag-random-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-handsome-anthropomorphic-meerkat-in-a-yellow-t-shirt-and-blue-jeans-with-backpack-walking-down-a-grassy-path-in-a-forest-on-a-clear-summers-day-as-a-cartoon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}