#on goodness

[thesunnahthebetter]

Call it naivety, call it mental gymnastics, I WILL be finding the goodness in people, idc idc

[thediagnosedweeb]

On being Good

I want to be Good, I yearn to be Good and yet I'm still me

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“…Human beings aren’t born with kindness. That’s something that only comes to us later. All we have at first are desires, for things like food and shelter. Basically, just survival instincts…Kindness is our hearts growing inside us, growing like people—at different rates, in different ways. And, that’s why one person’s kindness might look different from another’s.

So, it’s simple to understand desire, because it’s something everyone has from birth, but each person’s kindness is pretty much handmade by them, so it’s easy for others to misunderstand it, or assume that it’s phony.

It was exciting to think there were different shapes of kindness in the world, like round ones or pointy ones. None quite the same. This may sound strange, but your kindness reminds me of a candle. It lights up. When it does, I can’t help but smile at the warmth it gives off. There’s nothing phony about it.”

from Fruits Basket (season 1, episode 3)

[piecesofadaisy]

Love is good, being loved is good, being able to love is good / I am not good / I am not good / God why am I unable to be good?

a snippet of me and my thoughts on love and God and self

[likealittleheartbeat]

“I just think goodness is more interesting. Evil is constant. You can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. But you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.” 

Toni Morrison

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“’Joe Pera Talks With You’ is good.

Good as in good quality, yeah. As an episodic, 11-minute comedy series, it is very, very good. But Joe Pera Talks With You is also ambitiously “good” in the sense of being moral, and well-intentioned, and caring, and considerate. When you were a kid and your parents told you to “be good” to people, they meant that you should do as Joe Pera Talks With You does.

It can be difficult to convey how a TV show airing on Cartoon Network’s provocative nighttime programming block Adult Swim can evoke almost nostalgic feelings of kind-heartedness. The premise of Joe Pera Talks With You is so simple as to almost be beside the point: Comedian Joe Pera plays a lightly fictionalized version of himself as a sweet Michigander, a middle-school chorus teacher with small and specific passions. Joe likes breakfast food, obscure trivia, beans, trips to the grocery store, and his grandma. He greets every day with a contented smile, stands beneath a pale blue sky, packs a balanced lunch that contains no surprises. (A turkey sandwich with cheese and a tomato, a banana, some trail mix, and as a treat, some cookies.) Joe, more than anything, is satisfied.

His greatest joy is sharing these small pleasures with you, the viewer who exists on the other side of the fourth wall he has cleanly dismantled, often speaking quietly to the camera like he’s sharing a secret, just between you two. That he’s talking “with” and not “to” you is a crucial distinction in the show’s title: Joe never lectures nor rhapsodizes. Instead, he waxes poetic about what he loves and who he cares for and how he leads his life, telling his stories from a vulnerable position of welcoming you into his daily existence.”

“A Great Comedy About Being Good,” Allegra Frank for Vox