A kindness like yours only seems to attract the worst in people - the ones who latch onto the smallest shreds of decency and refuse to let go until either you are nothing or you lose patience and confirm their self-pitying view that all the world detests them.
A kindness like yours is as much a gift as it is a curse. Where most people would see a drowned creature and run, you set down a stale grain bar on the pond's edge and let the water draw it towards the heap of shivering fur and teeth whose gentle snarls faded as it began to eat.
A kindness like yours keeps the worst of the world in arm's reach - half trying to break your kindness as if wanting to help was a challenge to the universe itself, the other half hellbent on protecting you til their last breath. Some days their chaos swirled around you like a wretched miasma while other days were calm as the ocean before a storm.
In the middle of all this you were only a human slowly acquiring an army.
Soon you'll have enough to start making progress against the world.
A kindness like yours deserves to be shared to all.
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