“Why are you being nice to me?” he asked. His words were heartbreaking and echoed within me.
I handed him a warm blanket and could think of nothing else but to reply, “Is there some reason I shouldn’t be nice to you?”
He looked at me, shrugged his shoulders, and said, “No one else is.” Sizing me up, he added, “You’re not like them.”
In today’s culture, kindness and compassion tend to be the exception, instead of the rule. Sometimes people are surprised when a stranger extends kindness to…
