One Apple A Day #769 - compassion
I noticed an increasing tendency to hold others to standards that we can't live up to. Or maybe it's just me doing that. I realise that sometimes I expect others to have a coherence that I don't have. To expect them to always walk their talk and judge them when they don't.
All of this while I'm the first to fail.
It is so much easier to judge others. As if in spotting their shortcoming and failures, it means I'm better than them.
But am I?
Or am I just escaping my own responsibilities towards myself first, and the others too?
We all are on this same bumpy ride called life.
We slip, we fall, we bleed, sometimes we get lost.
We are human, a never-finished always in-progress work of art.
Compassion is about seeing perfection in this imperfection that we all are.