Compassion

What is compassion ? to be able to feel another person’s miseries and sorrows as one would feel their own ? Is that compassion ? to be able to walk into another person’s shoes? Or is it to be able to put yourself in place of others in the difficult times ? or is it to be able to stand with your loved ones in the times of crisis ? or is it to be able to provide a shoulder to some unknown without any expectation all in the name of humanness ? What exactly is compassion ?

Can I or you or anyone really do that ? Could we really feel someone’s pain as they do ?

I don’t think we can.

But, I think that is where true compassion lies. Compassion does not begin as an act. It begins as a choice. A choice to feel others miseries and sorrows. A choice to be able to put yourself in place of others in difficult times. A choice to stand with your loved ones in the times of crisis. A choice to help a stranger all for the sake of humanity. A choice that is completely yours. A choice that begins from you and ends at you.

A simple choice.