09/15/2025
Something I've observed over and over again: It's not a problem until it starts happening to you. There are some that will gladly look the other way or do Olympic level gymnastics to explain away reprehensible behavior. Until it happens to them. Then when it does happen to them, all of a sudden their world view changes. All the sympathy and empathy they wouldn't DREAM of EVER sharing with others, they expect to be given to them. The problem is, empathy and compassion are in short supply all around. We don't know how to be empathetic anymore. We don't value compassion anymore. WWJD is a cute little bumper sticker or wristband instead of a moral challenge that readily to mind in our collective consciousness. We are too caught up in our own primary character lives, we can't be bothered with anyone else's supporting character lives. Most of us can't be worried to live the lives of empathy and compassion that Jesus and every other spiritual leader has called for us to live since the beginning of time. Which is why some of us are okay with heinous and reprehensible things happening to other people. "Not my monkey, not my circus", we say. Until it becomes our monkey and our circus. We are never going to get better and spiritually evolve as a human species until we start embracing empathy, kindness and compassion as a conscious, front of mind always, way of life rather than just a WWJD bumper sticker lifestyle. And yes, I'm pointing the finger at myself too. That's all.
