Alfajores

This is it, the end of an era. I've said my goodbye to my co-worker Judith who brought me a few homemade Alfajores, just the other day. And I’m the one that is leaving.
Judith has been like a grandmother to me, she always was comforting and giving advice, I felt that my heart opened to her more and more.

“Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is a superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

I’ve always liked Murakami's way of thinking and portrayal of thoughts.

It's true, people are kind, not because they are kind, but because they were raised to be like that, they were raised to be kind to others and respect them, Even though as Murakami states it, it is kind of a superficial custom, it still gives me comfort.

Now, I can be all philosophic and say that people are kind because it is their true nature, and your upbringing might not be the reason for it.

I can go on and on when it comes to being all philosophical, I always see both sides of the coin, and it always put me in an emotional disturbance.