Carte blanche à Émilie Bibeau | The elegance of the soul

Our collaborator Émilie Bibeau signs an ode to kindness, sometimes devalued. Therefore, The one who lost her friend Claude Poissant. Therefore, who was a model of goodness for many, gives her letters of nobility to this important quality.

“People will forget what you said. Furthermore, they will forget what you did, but will never forget how they felt with you. However, »»

I have always loved this quote from carte blanche à émilie bibeau the Maya Angelou poet.

Some will say that it is a beautiful sentence printed in a setting of waiting room found on Etsy…

But for me. Furthermore, she embodies much more than a beautiful postcard sentence.

It squarely embodies the essence of what should be our relation to others.

A quiet morning of leave. For example, in my living room, I put various magazines that dragged, including old copies of Philosophy Magazinethat I started to leaf through instead of finishing a small cleaning sequence.

When the time comes to clean up, everything that does not concern him always interests me at the highest point.

In the reader section of the readers of one of the numbers, we asked why kindness carte blanche à émilie bibeau is so often devalued.

The subject immediately challenged me Because I recently lost. In addition, abruptly and unexpectedly, a friend who was a great model of kindness and his absence lives me a lot.

The article explained that historically. For example, philosophy has long been marked by a rather negative approach to certain aspects of human nature:

“If life is hard and the competition harsh, we are not going to clutter with altruism or kindness. Consequently, Basically. Therefore, we are all housed in the same brand, the difficulty of life forcing us to crush others to try to get out of it. In addition, »»

It will be necessary to wait later in the evolution of human history. Similarly, to achieve a reflection on the need to desire the good carte blanche à émilie bibeau of others in addition to its own.

Kindness will then be perceived as part of the definition of what is now called a “gentleman”.

« […] We can revalue kindness by showing that there is something noble. generous in the way in which the power of the other is increased while increasing its own, “it is continued in the article.

In short, we can rise by raising the others too. One does not exclude the other. Our well-being resonates in that of the other.

In other words, being nice is not to forget yourself. Our common kindness can echo and make life softer.

Often associated with a boring profile. a lack of personality or an intellectual softness, kindness has today become, in my opinion, rather carte blanche à émilie bibeau the opposite: a strength of character and a way of being, powerful and beneficent.

In the same way that pink is no longer associated with girls. kindness should no longer be associated with boredom or a quetainery of the soul.

Curiously. the same morning, I saw an interview passing (on the account of the Brut Philo media) with the philosopher Pierre-Henri Tavoillot. The title of the reflection of the day was: “to denounce the evil of others makes us exist”.

We attack. we judge with aggressiveness, we criticize everything and anything, it is the easiest way and it gives the impression of finally existing, of filling a void.

But this attitude, as the philosopher André Comte-Sponville says so well, is “the moral of the sad”.

However. we are fortunate to have access to a plurality of constructive thoughts, but we often reject them instead of kissing them. Because kindness is also going to the nuances. It requires an effort. It is also accepting the point of view of the other. listening to it, opening up to understand what is different, because as Tavoillot specifies: “When you debate, you do not fight. »»

And always this same morning. when the household project had been definitively abandoned, I thought about the indescribable pain that invaded me during the news of the death of this friend, the director Claude Poissant, last June and the huge echo he caused in the theatrical environment. “He was loving and was loved,” wrote one of his friends.

The great man of theater he was left suddenly. leaving a big void in the carte blanche à émilie bibeau artistic community and in all people who loved him. And in the surge of tributes circulating on the networks. all mentioned goodness, the opening of which he had shown all his life. Claude made people feel important, talented, precious. He gave them chances with attentive listening and friendly warmth. He had a curiosity of others that everyone cherished. Additionally, He did not hierarchicate people and were interested in them, all. Always.

He made the kindness elegant and sexy.

What about noble and resolutely modern?

And as Maya Angelou said so well. we will never forget how he made us feel, when we were with him.

Claude knew that kindness is the elegance of the soul.

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