So many people are fighting battles we just don't see. And sometimes, even when they do see them, they judge them against their own standards about what is difficult, belittling the other's issues as insignificant compared to their own. That's happened to me a bit lately, where I've been belittled for my experiences and it kinda gaslighted me a little bit, where I felt really shitty for even vocalising what I was sitting with at the time. I'm really, really conscious about practicing compassion, because it is a PRACTICE. Sometimes our default is to judge - and that's okay, but to act on it is to lack the courage to do the work to be otherwise. Kindness, always. It's the new hero look. xx
It's such a simple thing once we decide to do it. It's just a commitment we each need to make for ourselves, really.
Committment/intention is everything, don't you think? It's no good going 'oh kind is nice' and in next breath being an asshat.