Love and sweetness

I’m reading Leo Tolstoy’s, Anna Karenina for the first time, and what struck me in a description of the young Kitty was her “sweetness.” It occurred to me that that characteristic and demonstration of love is extremely and particularly special. Sort of like the song, “What The World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love,” I wish that sweetness toward all living things was more ubiquitous. It is certainly not non-existent and is abundant in some parts of the world, but I wish it were commonplace throughout the world. Would that it were, maybe war and terrorism would not even be in our vocabulary, behavior, or psyche.