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Being A Kind Person Is Worth Something

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Destiny Miller Mr. Short English 15 November 2017 Being a Kind Person is Worth Something ¨The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” (Kalu Kalu). How do you want to be remembered and then how will you actually be remembered? Being a good person is such a problem today and many people have assumed that the solution is to be mean, to put others down and to simply not think about being nice. However, all we need in our lives is respect for yourself and for others, kindness, common courtesy, and a little self ambition. Once we have all of those things or feel comfortable with those things, we then can be better people, we then can be nicer people. In today's society, there are just so many things going wrong. We have shootings going on more often, we have riots all over, and we have terrorists threats now, and maybe it is because people just don't see the good in anything anymore. It all starts with us as humans. We have trashed this place, we are becoming evil, we are becoming our own enemy, we are killing people, and we are putting others down for no reason. The big question is, why? Why are we so mean to each other? Some people could say it is because we don't love ourselves, maybe because they have had something traumatic happen in their lives and it's hard to see the good, maybe because we have made poor choices and we think it is too late, maybe because they aren't religious,

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