Kindness is for losers

Alice WADOUX        1A-GA18[pic 1][pic 2]

ENGLISH: essay, Kindness is for losers        28/01  

Kindness is one of the most basic value you learn as a child and something everyone should try to express in their life. Yet it seems that kindness is steadily fading from modern society. In fact, kindness is often seen as a weakness, a fragility or even a flaw, and while kindness has a connotation of meaning someone is naive or weak, that is not the case. Being kind often requires courage and strength. So, is kindness really for losers? Is being mean the key to success?

All of us crave power. It makes us feel important and relevant. And we're usually eager to put others down in order to make ourselves feel more important. Why? Because it's easy and the alternative way to feel important is to work hard and that's difficult. People are usually mean to others when they feel their position is threatened or they do not hold authority in an area anymore. A strong person will help people around themselves and will want people to grow around them. They will not feel threatened by others' strengths, they would rather try to improve and better themselves.

This is what healthy competition is about. In fact, being a student in a highly competitive school I could choose the “easy” way out and put obstacles in the way of others in order to stand out, yet I often help my friends (and vice versa) and this feel way more rewarding than stifling others.

To conclude, being mean is not a strength, it is rather a weakness and a sign of lack of self-control. It gets us nowhere. However, a strong person is humble and kind, which makes them respectful. 

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