Kindness is a wonderful thing, and I too wish I were kinder.

I've known some kind people. They aren't "kind to you." They're just kind. And that kindness flows out toward you when you interact with them. They don't do kind things. They are kind people. That's what I want to be. A kind person.

Meantime I'll just have to be a normal person who sometimes remembers to act kind.

Some quotes on kindness I happened to run across today:

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? -George Eliot

When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel