(134 words) Kindness is the desire to sympathize and help a living creature, regardless of the degree of familiarity with it.
In the proposed text of V. Dragunsky, kindness is expressed in relation to the narrator to his ward elephant. Instead of anger and reproaches against the animal, which due to health reasons cannot speak and breaks the number, he sincerely worries for him, shows sympathy. For this, the elephant answers him with gratitude and soon gets better in order to give the children a holiday again.
A. Kuprin described the same kind deed in the story “The Miraculous Doctor”. Doctor Pirogov unselfishly rescues strangers by prescribing medicines for sick children and leaving several large bills on their father's desk. Thanks to him, the Mertsalovs got to their feet: the father of the family found a job, mother and children recovered, and they all moved from a damp basement to normal housing.
Thus, kindness is true beauty, capable, as F. Dostoevsky said, of saving the world.
Movie example: In the series of Christmas films by T. Bikmambetov “Fir-trees”, kindness is central. Heroes ask each other for help and, acting together, bring real miracles to reality. So, in the first part of the orphanage, the girl receives a personal congratulation from the president, because she is helped by a variety of different, but equally kind people.
Personal life example: Kindness begins with a small, not even significant act. One winter, I fed birds in a park. A man with a pram came up to me, he also crumbled bread. We got into a conversation. I complained, I can’t make a birdhouse, and then he promised that in the spring he will give it to me so that I hang it myself and decorate it as I want. I had already forgotten about it, but in March I really met him at the same place, and he brought the finished product out of the house.
Media example: In one newspaper, I read an article where a former political prisoner spoke about the attitude of the local population towards prisoners. They, being poor and half-starved peasants, still threw some food to those who walked along the stage. In this attempt to alleviate the fate of strangers, the kindness of the simple Russian people is expressed.
