The Absence of Ulterior Motive

gestures often referred to as
acts of kindness, bring with
them positive inferences & sometimes even
long term connections which can be the most
important in our lives,
certainly---
however, when speaking of those
moments
when one acts out of nothing more than for lack of better terms---
“humanity,” or “what it is to be human,”
maybe even something like
“common decency”
that is,
without ulterior motive---
it can define us
in ways that may only be felt days or months later---
like the aftershocks of an earthquake,
but instead,
purely positive---
not leaving the resonance of what some would label
morally
”good” or “bad”
but simply more positive that such an occurrence
happened
rather than it being negative in
happening,
or for that matter,
not happening at all.

if you know that there are actions that speak for
themselves---
that there are moments when an unspoken
assurance is made
during the transition of facial expressions,
or the nonverbal everyday
mechanics perpetuating the systems which we
for better or for worse
presently operate within,
then you understand the value of these
instances
whereby our very human similarities are
articulated.