Is It Better to Give Or Receive Kindness?
What question — when answered — can make for a nicer world
Recently, Malky McEwan challenged invitees (and all new writers) to select, answer and submit 11 questions for his new publication: E³- Entertain Enlighten Empower.
The list of provided questions was long and varied from funny to serious: This makes me laugh to I still regret…
Here’s the Q&A Template for those who are intrigued and for those who just want the opportunity to “sizzle” some brains:
E³ Q&A — Template
(Answer 11 questions + one of your own)
- Put the reader first.
- If you have nothing to say, don’t say it (delete those Qs).
- Sell yourself. Feel free to sizzle the reader’s optic nerves and set their brains on fire.
It’s all about the reader. And I confess as a reader and now a writer for E³, I am privileged to be among the inaugural group.
I feel lucky to have made the cut and that’s despite me neglecting to include a critical piece in my Q&A.
I forgot to add my question to the mix. An oversight I will rectify now:
“What kindness have you given or received lately?
I’m not a “sizzler” when I write. I’m more of a gentle saute or slow burn.
My hope is the reader and respondent use my question as a springboard to recall the kind acts we all witness daily, but never note.
What better way to counter global strife than by acknowledging kindness?
And my ultimate goal — the question might inspire us all to be a little more gentle and kind to others and to ourselves.
After all, onions are sweetest when slowly sautéd to a golden hue and not sizzled to a dark brown char.
