Kindness is the light that burns in the chest even when the night thickens around. It is the quiet voice that continues to speak gently, even when the world screams in your face. You can betray, you can turn away, you can fill the air with the cold of your words. You can try to disappoint, to mock, to burn the faith in people out of me. But even if the world tightens into a ring of cruelty around me, my kindness will not disappear.