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It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

It's choosing to be kind to people when you're in a bad mood, or when they're being annoying.

It's choosing to be kind to people who your friends don't like.

It's choosing to be kind to people who you don't particularly like.

It's choosing to be kind to people who you envy.

I'm not saying that you can't be a kind person and stand up for yourself, or tell someone to fuck off when they're doing something genuinely harmful, but there are a million petty reasons people use to justify treating people badly.

But that's exactly what kindness is. It's making the effort to treat people well when you don't feel like it.

Called it being “two faced.” At that point it helped me realize “oh I don’t want to be in this group anymore if you think that being kind to people you dislike is some sort of transgression.”

Zack pulled the bottom half of a street light out of the ground WITH ITS FULL CONCRETE BASE ATTACHED and swung it at a helicopter like he was batting a home run in Rebirth. Zack did that. Arguably the weakest of the Firsts, since he didn't have a shit ton of Jenova DNA. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have in fact seen a fucking street light.

How much shit did Sephiroth accidentally break growing up before he learned to treat things gently? How much of his pre-Nibelheim personality came from the knowledge that he must move softly through the world or he could kill the people around him?

Did Angeal crack hand weights in half with his biceps as a party trick? How many red coats did Genesis accidentally tear in half before he forced himself to always move more gracefully?