Odds are, no matter how long you live, what you choose to do as a vocation, where you live or just about any other variable, you will one day find out that it is simply easier to be kind.

When we are younger, we have new energy, new aspirations and new priorities. We want to make something of ourselves and we have an intense desire to make more money. The drive to compete with the Jones family next door is high, the want of the new car is in our eyes, and the thoughts of success run rampant.

But a...