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Binding the Grass to Repay Kindness — Between Roots and the Care That Came
Busy resenting the roots I believe did not want me, do I fail to see the other kindnesses handed to me in unexpected places?
To bind the grass to repay a kindness received — a gratitude not forgotten even in death.
The saying "bind the grass to repay kindness" comes from an old tale of repaying a debt of gratitude even in death.
📝The Classic Answers
The saying "bind the grass to repay kindness" comes from an old tale of repaying a debt of gratitude even in death. One raised feeling unwanted easily resents their roots, and that resentment has its reasons. Yet dwelling only in it, one cannot see the tenderness handed over in an unexpected place — a kindness given without any name put forward. Beside a child who has learned that the roots he longed for did not want him, one gruff man who will not in the end let go of his hand walks along. Not only the bond of birth is kindness; the heart handed over on the road is a kindness to be repaid too. Rather than being caught by the roots that wounded me, I choose to recognize first the kindness received beside me now, and to keep it in my heart.
🌱Apply It Today
Among those who have kept you walking until now, recall one tenderness handed over without a name, and engrave your thanks for it, even if only in your heart.
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