A Certain Quality of Mojo :  Real Generosity

Alison Armstrong talks a lot about generosity. She uses it along with the words kind. What does that really mean?:

gen·er·ous
adjective
1. liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
2. free from meanness or smallness of mind or character; magnanimous.

3. large; abundant; ample: a generous portion of pie.
4. rich or strong in flavor: a generous wine.
5. fertile; prolific: generous soil.

kind
adjective 
1. of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person: a kind and loving person.
2. having, showing, or proceeding from benevolence: kind words.
3. indulgent, considerate, or helpful; humane (often followed by to ): to be kind to animals.
4. mild; gentle; clement: kind weather.
5. British Dialect . loving; affectionate

After the romance has worn off, and it’s been years, and you have lost yourselves in the routines of going to work, dropping the kids off at school, paying the mortgage and the coming home only to do it all over again, you have a choice. That’s the time for real generosity. Because that is when your man will stand before you, with all the good, all the bad, and all of his accomplishments and all of his broken dreams, facing the reality of old age perhaps evidenced by hair loss he or you may find unnerving;  It’s holding those broken dreams that takes the most generosity and then having the generosity to say, “c’mon let’s go, I will keep walking with you.”