January is the “family month” this year, for me!
Indeed, after a beautiful week spent with my children and grand-children in the French Riviera (see previous post), I have been in Colombia for two weeks with the family of Françoise, my wife, for the marriage of her nephew…
I made a nice discovery when arriving in Colombia: the Colombian nation is kind!
Being drilled by the kindness week, it is no surprise that I noticed it right away with the first Colombian I met after stepping out of the plane, the Customs employee.
The same kindness emanated from the Airport employee who guided us to the Hotel Shuttle, the hotel receptionist, and the waiter in the restaurant…
The following days showed that it was no coincidence or just the effect of the law of attraction (as I was focused on kindness by virtue of the MKMMA), but a characteristic of most Colombians, as all my various contacts with them proved (in hotels, restaurants, shops, the streets, and the family in law of Françoise’s nephew).
This discovery about the kindness of Colombian people has lead me to another experiment about kindness.
Indeed, Colombians have also a few common weaknesses.
For example, in some areas like hotels and restaurants, they are most often slow and rather untrained.
That makes the average waiting time for a meal in a restaurant two or three times longer than in Europe…and once we get our meal, several other details must often still be fixed before we can really start to eat.
Similar situations in any European restaurant would lead most clients to loose their temper quickly!
However here, in Colombia, the kindness of the waiter was remarkably keeping anger and frustration away from all his customers…
Throughout the 12 days journey, several other examples of the power of kindness to protect all actors of a scene appeared to me…Always with the same remarkable efficiency.
In conclusion, now that I am back home, and at the light of this Colombian experience, I have decided to reinforce my attention on kindness, knowing that this will significantly protect and improve the quality of my environment…
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