Brain Food #733
The weight of compassion
Thoughts of the day
This week, it no longer feels right to read or write content on self-development, leadership, wealth creation, or anything else related to self-actualisation. These are all minnows against the dark vastness of what is happening in world affairs.
What truly matters is what we see people losing now, updated in real-time, on our screens. Their homes, their memories, their freedom to be in the life they wanted for themselves, their lives, and their futures. And if we can count all of the above within our blessings, we should already consider ourselves very, very lucky.
In the meantime, in the internal battle between hope and despair, we can choose hope. And, during these heavy times, we can discover the strength needed to carry with us the weight of compassion:
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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