Compassion as a Commitment

"Compassion is not a virtue - it's a commitment." - Brene Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)

To get us through the pandemic, we all need compassion. For each other, yes - and also for ourselves.

Where we fail is thinking that compassion just naturally arises, that some people have it and some don’t. We all have the capacity for it. We don’t always express it. And we certainly don’t all have compassion towards the same things.

So the real task is to make the case for compassion directed towards the need you see.

If someone doesn’t express compassion maybe the case hasn’t been made strongly enough?

Or is it that they care more about something else entirely?