Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Societies hold together on far less law than people imagine and far more ordinary decency. The chain is made of acts nobody records: the held door, the honest answer, the person who could have taken advantage and did not. Each link is weak alone and the whole thing is surprisingly strong, which also means every unkindness is a small break somewhere.

You are a link in more chains than you notice, at work, in a building, in a family, so choose one place where you have quietly stopped bothering to be gracious and put the effort back in this week.