Thank you for the appreciation! Vulnerability is inevitable if we want meaningful connections with other people. If we hold a mask and never reveal what we feel, our life can feel like a role. It is not authentic and it can be exhausting. There are people who have many friends, but almost no connection. We see this often playing out in social media, where happy online people are depressed, almost suicidal in real life.
Having compassion is a learned skill. I think it depends on how deep you went within yourself in order to do the same thing for others. We do need compassion more, we have become solitary creatures when it comes to emotions. We learned how to bottle them and pretend everything is alright because of the pressure to be the same with our peers. It is wrong and it does more damage.
What I think it's tougher now is the fact that we have so many distractions at our fingertips that you can run an entire life from yourself and your trauma. You can get so busy doing nothing just to avoid emotional work. Have you noticed how many people avoid solitude as in being with themselves in a healthy way? Also having conversations with parents about the childhood looks like a weird thing to do for many. This is again not beneficial.
No compassion towards the self can't build compassionate people. We need more self awareness
Thank you for reading!