Why do we ignore other people’s problems?
Are we too busy in our days with our smartphones,
our jobs, our apps that we really don’t have time to
bring on additional issues?
Basically, it sucks to be you, until it’s me.
Our life is our creation.
It is not something that happens to us unless we
give up our right to create it.
We can choose what we care about.
We can choose what we ignore.
How do we make compassion part of our work?
How do we choose empathy?
Compassion is feeling other’s pains and struggles
as though they were our own.
Compassion also includes the desire to mitigate
that other person’s pain.
Empathy allows us to relate to someone else’s
pain as if we had experienced that pain ourselves.
Lao Tzu says our role in life can be to hold space
for others.
– We can walk without judging and cultivate
compassion for another being.
– We can listen with our whole heart.
I suggest being empathetic;
– brings a higher level of maturity
– helps us in our search for fulfillment
– brings a level of peace and happiness
– brings us awareness
– helps us clarify our priorities
I say
– listen
– be nice
– judge less
– be patient
– if you can, do something, HELP
Whether other people’s pain affects you or not,
most of us want to be on a path toward maturity,
fulfillment, and peace and I suggest that
sometimes that takes caring for more than just
ourselves.
If not for altruistic reasons, do it for furthering
your own personal entireness, excellence, virtue,
wholeness, and achievement.
It may make us work to understand why someone
else may feel that other’s do not feel that their
life matters.
It may make us work to think that we want to value
a country that does not discriminate over a country
that has reduced taxes.
It may make us want to vote for leaders who build
governments to rescue us in hurricanes and negotiate
peace versus leaders who disrupt.
It may make us want to be a nation that welcomes
the poor and oppressed versus a nation that kicks
out people who want to stay and know no other
country.
Maturity, excellence, achievement, and wholeness
as a person require empathy and compassion for
others.
Sometimes you have to care, even if it doesn’t affect you.
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