Kindness and compassion is what allows the human race to survive at all. Those not capable of practicing kindness or compassion towards themselves or others often wind up alone or dead by the side of the road.
We live in a very difficult world to survive in. If things were so wonderful everywhere you wouldn't have people taking their children from Central or South America and lining up at the border to the U.S. or flying to Canada and trying to escape across the border to the U.S.
People survive because of kindness and compassion of one form or another and people who cannot reciprocate kindness and compassion like I said before are often found dead at the side of the road or in homeless shelters around the country.
However, it's true that many people are not capable of kindness and compassion simply because it wasn't shown to them growing up. In my era you had to be tough to survive.
I was always about a head taller than most children my age which protected me a lot from people my own age who were bullies because they had been abused at home in one way or another.
But, I was lucky enough to have parents who were good parents who didn't smoke or drink and were religious too. This kept me from being beaten up by my parents like most children I knew growing up in Glendale in the 1950s from 1956 when I was 8 until 1969 when I moved to the Hollywood Hills to live with my aunt who was an actress then in Hollywood and then to Venice California which looking back now likely was a mistake to move to Venice because where I really wanted to live was on the coast in Santa Monica. So, basically, moving to Venice was mistake for me in 1969 because of a lot of reasons then because I was too young and too naive in ways I didn't understand then because like many young people I thought I knew everything already and no one could really teach me anything then unless I wanted to learn it.
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