Thank you so much for the reply!
I appreciate your post, it really made me think about the topic and gave me another viewpoint. I suppose I had never thought of kindness as being vulnerable because I was just always have looked to help whether that was going to get me rejected or not. For the most part though, people do not turn away help or a smile or a kind word in my experience. I can see where putting yourself out there like that though could be tough for some people. Thank you again for your reply :)