TOMORROW is no guarantee.
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Life is chaotic and while we study ways to outsmart it, no matter how fit and abstemiously we live, no one ever outruns it.
In media, we’re regularly reminded all too often life is fragile and calamities are common.
While it is easy and understandable to get mad about life’s maladies and fragility, there’s one quarry we can always mine for strength.
She lost her eldest son Thomas to a one-punch attack and later lost her son Stuart to suicide.
Her family’s grief must have been incomprehensible.
But she stood up in Tamworth and once again revealed her family’s scars to a room filled with the region’s teenagers.
Her advice for sailing life’s threshing swells of chance: be kind.
When taking on a cruel world, compassion is all that’s needed in the arsenal.
Because today, everyone is a warrior, at least online.
Facebook comments particularly on news pages are often bitter verging on toxic with odious one-upmanship often directed at other people.
While personal accounts are curated to convey the ‘best’ version of ourselves experiencing the richest things life can offer tallying special internet points.
Somewhere along the way kindness got kicked down the list of priorities.
However, for a woman who has had so much taken, giving still comes first.
Mrs Kelly said a lack of kindness was the root of many issues and told the students to consider just doing one kind act a day.
When asked what her kind deed for Monday was, she said in jest keeping her cool in the lengthy airport security queue, but hoped putting Tamworth teens on the path to kindness would make a difference too.
She sets a lofty standard, but lives by a simple credo.
In a cruel world which guarantees nothing and takes so much, find strength in kindness.