Compassion vs. Niceness · Life Includes the Bitter Pills
⁘ “Compassion, like medicine, comes in many flavors. Compassion isn't about doing what's popular or makes you loved. It's a matter of doing things that are actually beneficial — whether you receive praise or blame for your reward.”
It's nice to be kind, and it's kind to be nice,
but that isn't always what life demands of us.
I have to dish out the bitter pills.
And how most upsetting.
I thought you were my friend,
I thought you understood me.
Well exactly that, you see.
With that we realize that compassion, like medicine, comes in many flavors.
Compassion isn't a matter of doing what's popular or makes you loved.
It's a matter of doing things that are actually beneficial,
whether you receive praise or blame for your reward.
Because you see, compassion was never about you.
It was about alleviating the suffering of others.
Not providing symptomatic relief and generating patterns of addiction.
Not doing the things that they ask or expect of you,
but doing the things that are true and right in the full picture of all things.