Compassion (from Latin: “co-suffering”) is a virtue — one in which the emotional capacities of empathy and sympathy (for the suffering of others) are regarded as a part of love itself, and a cornerstone of greater social interconnectedness and humanism —foundational to the highest principles in philosophy, society, and personhood. – Wikipedia
What does compassion mean to you? Since kindness’ reputation has already been tarnished by attributing it to weakness, I will press on to examine another thinkGood. vocabulary selection: compassion. Take a minute to read the definition above. A few key points I wanted to discuss include the following key words/phrases: emotional capacity, empathy, sympathy, suffering, love, interconnectedness. As a young adult I bet if I could put compassion in a box and packaged it up so it was aesthetically pleasing to the eye and had Santa drop it off Christmas morning for every young adult in my life they would be a kid in an emotional candy store. What I am trying to convey is that life is hard enough just trying to survive the rat race. Why not show a little more compassion to others extended past your geographic location, creed, or kinship to the human race as a singular populous.
Compassion is a characteristic that everyone should search for when interacting with people. If you find someone who was born with a natural skill of exercising compassion, you better make sure you keep them in your life. It takes much more strength and resilience against popular persuasion to exercise compassion. I can only hope in the near future that what is deemed popular would be attributed to exercising kindness and compassion for all, and not what the current state of affairs seem to be.
If people just exhibited a little more compassion to a greater number of people, and we all took a little more responsibility for our actions, social pressures and stresses would decrease significantly. If we just loved and cared a little bit more, not much, just a little more, life would be a little bit happier for us all. Every smile, kind word, listening ear, compassionate heart counts, and should never go unrecognized without appreciation. Appreciation provides positive reinforcement…which will be my next thinkGood. Lingo tangent.
Until next time,
Do Good, Feel Good, Live Good
- Team thinkGood.
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