what is the value of kindness and sacrifice?
Answers
As nouns the difference between kindness and sacrifice is that kindness is the state of being kind while sacrifice is the offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
As a verb sacrifice is to offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
In late March, at the peak of Americans’ panic buying, my husband and I were having a hard time finding basic items — eggs, chicken, and beans, to name a few. So, we decided to divide and conquer. I went to one store, he headed to another. I came up emptyhanded, but he found eggs. As he waited in line, relieved that he hadn’t wasted another trip to the store, the woman just ahead of him caught him off guard — she told the cashier she’d pay for his eggs.
My husband was truly touched. I even got a little teary-eyed when he told me the story (and not just because we’d finally found everything on our grocery list). It was the kindness of this stranger’s gesture. She’d recognized how trying that moment was, that my husband had probably gone through a lot more than usual to get that carton of eggs. It was a moment of solidarity — she and my husband were navigating the same scary, unfamiliar territory together.
Soon after, in the drive-thru at one of our favorite coffee shops, my husband tipped the cashier $20, when a dollar or two would have sufficed. He didn’t do it to show off or receive any praise; he just wanted to pay the kindness forward. He wanted to show his appreciation for the risks many frontline workers across several industries are taking to serve the public, and he wanted to ensure that the stranger’s little act of kindness wasn’t in vain.