COLLECTIVE COMPASSION HEALED HEARTS

It all starts with us. In believing in our potential, our goodness, and the river of kindness within that is capable of quenching the parched hearts, longing for love, and hope.

- MADHUMATHI H.

Am eternally grateful to Emily Dickinson for her profound poem, "If i can stop one heart from breaking...", that inspires me every single day. I strongly believe in the power of random acts of kindness, and there is a special kind of joy in making someone smile, happy, feel a wee bit of hope in their hearts.

All it takes, is the willingness to be there for someone. Just a word or two of kindness, holding hands and reassuring, "let's handle it, am with you", "I understand how it feels", "Vent it out", non-judgemental listening - all these genuine acts of empathy, can make a huge difference in someone's life. Kindness saves lives.

Besides few go-to souls among relatives, am blessed with some genuinely compassionate friends/hope-weavers, who have handheld me in different phases of my life. Who still do, and prove that family is not always blood. I pay it forward.