It’s certainly a privilege to be generous, almost by definition; you have to _have_ in order to _give_, abstractly. Whether the currency is in the form of self-esteem, wealth, status, etc.
One of the most important things I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. I just lived in my comfortable bubble growing up so of course it was easy to be “nice”. Of course I still believe we should always maintain a civil standard, but I understand now rudeness’ usually sad origins so to speak (emotional pain from abuse, life, whatever).
Though I've seen some amazing people who have very little still being generous.
And I have also seen crises wear down good people and turn them into ungenerous wrecks of themselves.
In the end, what I learned is that people are people, and I really can't judge anything by the cover. I have no idea what else is going on with someone, or their character and capacity to meet great hardships. And even if they have little capacity ... they are still people.
How well that holds up in my own moments of crises? I can do a lot better.
One of the most important things I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. I just lived in my comfortable bubble growing up so of course it was easy to be “nice”. Of course I still believe we should always maintain a civil standard, but I understand now rudeness’ usually sad origins so to speak (emotional pain from abuse, life, whatever).