To be kind or to be right?

If you had a choice to be kind or to be right...

Choose being kind because then you will always be right.

Being kind is just the first step. 
Even though I quote my noble friend Zahir, I feel there is something much more to be said.

More than being kind is being compassionate. 
What's the difference?


An act of kindness always places an individual above another being. This without any bad intention on the part of the kind person places a burden of gratitude upon the recipient of kindness.
In addition the receiver feels inferior to the kind person who often feels superior.

Traditional Indian culture emphasise 'Karuna' meaning compassion, as more important than 'Kripa' meaning to oblige or 'Daya' which means kindness or pity.

To be compassionate is a virtue in which there is respect and equality. 
In the case of pity and kindness there will always be inequality and often dissent.

That is why people are often angry and confused when that their kindness is often not appreciated or 'people bite the hand that feeds them'.

In being kind, one makes a choice and an effort. In being compassionate, one simply is.  Thus kindness is an act, compassion is a nature.

Are you kind or are you compassionate?