“Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of us learned as children that being “good” means leaving feathers unruffled and boats unrocked. Respect authority and always be nice.
But goodness is more than the absence of badness. (Is that a word?) It’s more than soft words and polite gestures.
In truth, if your goodness never leads to confrontation, if it never compels you to challenge injustice and call out BS where you find it, what you actually have is agreeableness, which is not the same.
True goodness has a spine. The smile is optional.
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