Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.
In "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World," Haruki Murakami distinguishes between kindness and a caring mind, suggesting that kindness is merely a set of social behaviors or manners. It represents a learned, surface-level response that individuals adopt in their interactions with others. This perspective implies that while kindness is important, it can lack depth.
On the other hand, Murakami emphasizes that the mind is a complex, powerful entity that...