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Chris Pyak, Author

Fiction writer with a great love of Europe and my fellow Europeans. I write weird, kind and (hopefully) funny stories at www.pyak.eu/letmerestinpeace

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About Kindness

Hello Reader, I’ve been thinking about kindness lately. A lot. It seems to me that there is no expression in the German language (I am German) that matches the full meaning of the English word “kindness”. “Freundlich” is just the way you communicate, an upgraded version of “höflich”. It lacks motivation. “Güte” comes close. But “Güte” implies a difference in status. A father is “gütig” to his child for example. “Herzlichkeit” is more about the level of enthusiasm that you show when...