A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Deserving is a measure for wages, not for affection. If you hand out warmth strictly in proportion to what has been earned, you are running an account, and people can feel the ledger even when you say nothing. The kind part is the unearned part, given a little ahead of the evidence, and it is often what lets someone grow into it.

Pick one person you have quietly downgraded. Give them the better reading this week, and assume the short reply was tiredness rather than contempt. You are not required to do this for everyone or forever, but see what a single overpayment changes.