Compassion

We need more of compassion. Towards ourselves and others.

We say we don’t have time for anything anymore, and that also includes people.

We don’t just scroll on our phones, we scroll past people too.

We aren’t just wearing filters masking who we are but we are also thinking in filters too. Not ready to listen to other perspectives or taking a moment to understand beyond what we believe.

We are too rigid to listen and too distracted to understand.

We have got everything we could possibly need to live a convenient life but we lost compassion. And without compassion, connection can’t survive so we lost that too.

And whether we admit it or not we feel it.
Feeling unfulfilled. Empty. Constantly feeling like something is missing.
We just find temporary things to numb this.

We may have connection at our fingertips but we lost connection in our heart.

But here is the thing:

Compassion doesn’t mean we love everyone.
It doesn’t mean we help every single person.
And it doesn’t mean we give all our time and energy to everyone.

It means pausing enough to be curious. Curious what someone maybe going through. Curious about what is behind the silence, the quiet smiles and even the anger.

Compassion starts with curiosity and right now we are dismissing instead of being curious.

And it starts with getting curious and compassionate with ourselves first.