The Right Way To Look at The World

I've been watching the first season of The White Lotus and for those unfamiliar with the show, it follows a few rich families as they spend their time at a resort in Hawaii. Each family is massively flawed though one particularly caught my attention due to their conversations. The mother is a CEO of a multinational cooperation, the father is unknown but makes less than her, son is addicted to pornography and screens, and daughter is a drug addict with insane jealousy issues. They all have different ideas of what is right and voice them often. The daughter has a black friend who she brought, who both share the idea that "it's time for the white man to step aside" which is contrary to the mother who feels for her son, saying that it's not his fault and not he's being unfairly ostracized from society. The resort they are staying at used to be native and sacred land but the government and developers didn't care. Some of those natives now work at the hotel. Tha...
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Who I want to be

 I think I'm going to choose kindness. My past approach was more aggressive, scared and shut off behavior. I was afraid to be kind, like it would somehow make me seem weak and push me from my goals. My response to that now is in two parts. First I think being too strung up on a goal will only push it away, and second having the mindset of needing it makes me feel anger and anxiety effectively pushing me from whats actually happening. 

I will do my best to act with kindness and integrity towards my values at every turn. If I feel like I'm doing something to get something in return I should stop. Act by emotion not by what you think others need.

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