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It’s Not You. It’s Them — Being Kind in a Cruel World

Given how cruel this world can be, if you can choose to be kind, that’s a superpower.

Lucas Hawthorne
ILLUMINATION
6 min readSep 9, 2023

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The other day, I wrote an article about what helps me avoid having days where I don’t know what to write about.

Toward the end of the article, I wrote about helping other people:

Inevitably, you’ll run into people you’ll help and they won’t do the same for you.

People aren’t under any obligations to return the favors and sometimes, this is just a part of the journey of content creation.

Lower your expectations and help people anyway.

The last sentence in the excerpt spoke out to another writer, Catherine Duchesne, who follows me.

Here’s what she said:

Screenshot of a comment left on my article.

What she wrote struck a chord with me, and I sent her a pretty lengthy response in return.

That’s when I felt inspired to write an article to expand on what she and I talked about, and here we are.

The mistake that muffles magnanimity

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Lucas Hawthorne
Lucas Hawthorne

Written by Lucas Hawthorne

A guide to life and self-improvement, brought to you by a magazine-published Gen Z-er. I'm not on Medium anymore, find me here: https://www.lucashawthorne.com/

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