Do you have strong values in your life? Family? Ethic? Religion? Probably the strongest values of your life are sentimental, are linked to your moral fiber. Well, consider yourself a lucky one if you don’t have to prove these values some day.

The most common value of all these mentioned and not mentioned, it is the Love. But as common Love is, as harder it is to be shown; to be proved, then. We live in a very sad time where demonstrate tender feelings by practical acts is something strange, not necessary, square, under the shadow of not-sincerity…but we know, in the deep of our human conscience that this is not true, even that we, ourselves, decided to hide our feelings behind those excuses.

Why this has to be said? Well, because we are part of the mankind. We all live under a thing called Human Condition. An, unwished condition, something almost personal, almost alive, with long arms. We run away from this arms all the time, or maybe we think these arms will never reach us. But they can. And if you don’t care, if you simply stay in the corner, these arms may tap your shoulder sooner or later.

Marie has the biggest fortune of the world. Not in money terms – she’s blessed with lots of people who feel like her, if they were in her situation. They know exactly what to say, in the exact time. Of course we don’t know how deep her problem goes, and if this is going to be an easy challenge or not. However, she’s all surrounded by support. And she has her fans, admirers, music appreciators, that are naturally concerned about her. The Human Condition caught her in a surprise, but she’s able to bear it – the grayer or clearer the weather will go – with the most important element of all, which is, happily, supplied with the Human Condition, too: the spirit. Her spirit is fed by the multitude of people thinking about her.

But wonder about others close to you, reached by the Human Condition. You have dear people; familiar, friends and people you may see sometimes. Maybe they’re fine now, today. And maybe tomorrow, they will come back home from a doctor’s office with a terrible new, or with information that will change their lives forever.

Two years ago, I went to a cardiologist. He read my exams and said that I had a terrible heart problem, and it would limit my physical activities. I had to do only light things, and couldn’t carry heavy stuff. I couldn’t do it in a job, in my house, wherever I were. I felt like an old man, with 20 years. At least, through four days, until I had a second option and a third option, who corrected the fist cardiologist’s diagnosis. I could have a normal life, with exercises, blowing up my energy normally…I only should take care with careless deep wounds and infections, ‘cause, instead, my heart valves could be filled with pus.

Despite the seriousness grade of my supposed heart problem, those four days helped me learn how people can feel when they get a real diagnosis with an illness, syndrome, genetic defect, or a tumor – something that will divide the waters of its lifelines. That’s why I don’t want to have a “real” problem to taste how the thing is. But more than their feelings, that situation gave me vision to see that we all need to exert our power – the power of kindness – now, right now, lot before people we love have their smiles shattered by shocking medical reports. I saw people with serious problems, I know people who have fathers, mothers, laying in beds, incapable of having a healthy life, ‘cause they’re jailed by the Human Condition. The deep care they receive now is a proof of their children’s love. But we can do more.

We can say it now. We can say we love the people we love – all of them – right now. We can do it now, as well. Of course, you do care about these people. But don’t wait something terrible to show it. Don’t wait a special date. Don’t be ashamed or shy. DO what you expect people could do for you. Either, you may feel like turning feelings banal. Of course you wouldn’t do it, but unavoidably we use to underrate ourselves in the critical times. So, prove that you love that person, prove its value right now…while you can yet see a pinky-cheek smile, a bright eye happiness. Gift, listen, invite to go your home, have a lunch, concede your time to share something that only the other person like, spend some time with that somebody. Give something real and special, from the bottom of your heart. Meditate about that people, their needs, their positive qualities, and maintain your feelings, reaffirm how much you care about that people.

Marie’s life and happiness could be restrained; all that she did could be damaged if she didn’t always have beloved people by her side. She could feel like a half-person – like I felt two years ago – all for a tiny grain of a useless mass behind her neck. She wants to stand on her own feet; she wants to get the things she usually gets. She has strength, she has, the force. We are not destined to always suffer the effects of our Condition. But our existence may be ingrate sometimes. Marie’s not, ‘cause her value is proved everyday by those ones who should and could. We wish our existence to don’t be ingrate as well; we wish it with all of our power. If you can, and you do, help other people to also wish it with all of its power – with the power of kindness.