RationizedInsanity🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸<p>Being <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kind</span></a> takes more strength than cruelty, or selfishness.</p><p>Nobody takes advantage of other people's cruelty. They avoid it if they can, then being selfish isolates you from others.</p><p>You have to take care with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kindness</span></a>.</p><p>I was kind to someone I stay at an independent living place with, who saw me as someone to use for free stuff and hadn't outgrown the jail mentality of constantly using people, then tried to rope me in with his friends who were up to illegal things.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a></p>