Thank you for writing this. I’m so glad to read that someone else sees gentleness and kindness as strength. I get told to toughen up and that I’m too nice. It’s so frustrating! I could have made the choice to allow the world to make me harder and colder. Instead I stayed compassionate and sidt hearted and it’s hard to be that way sometimes. I think being gentle in a tough world is true strength but it’s so hard to find people who agree.