So the day is here! Watch out for the #1000Speak hashtag today and promote it!
1000 bloggers to write posts about compassion, kindness, support, caring for others, non-judgement, care for the environment etc, and ALL PUBLISH ON THE SAME DAY (Feb 20th) to flood the Blogosphere with GOOD! Use the hashtag #1000Speak to promote this event.
I have a lot to be thankful for today, I am finally ending my work full-time (so yay!) but not only that my brother is coming down and is visiting for the weekend too, so I am really happy about that too =D It has definitely put me in the right mood!
Compassion to me is a very interesting concept mainly because the world seems like an interesting mix of what we individually think Compassion is. How in one moment we think what we are doing is compassionate then realise in the next moment maybe we are not as compassionate as we first thought we were. I have always felt that I cannot be compassionate when I am not taking care of myself first. Even with this though sounds like a selfish deed. I cannot take care of others when I feel like my own life is under so much pressure.
In this moments though that when we really face what matters to us and who matters to us. Every single one of us the ability to be compassionate, we just have to discover what is important to us. The most important thing though is to remind yourself to be kind to yourself. I have always believed though that you cannot be there for others if you are not kind to yourself first.
Though I am not a religious person the most compassionate person I think of when I think of “Compassion” is the Dalai Lama and I think that his teachings could teach us all a lot!
Wonderful words of wisdom there (trying saying that ten times fast). 🙂
I think it’s important to take of yourself first. After all, if you’re in no shape to help yourself, then how can you truly be helpful to others?
Anyway, you inspired me to share some words of my own. Here’s the link:
https://gabriel360live.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/the-key-to-happiness/
What do you think? Am I close?
Thank you and absolutely agree with what you’ve said. I think your post is completely wonderful! Sometimes the best writing just come to us in the most random of places =D
Agreed. 🙂
And thank you for tolerating my mistakes in the above comment.
*(try saying that ten times fast)
*I think it’s important to take care of yourself first.
Sometimes I wonder how those things get passed me even after I’ve read over what I’ve written a couple of times. lol
Hmm… being kind to myself is an idea I hadn’t really given much thought to…
Nice post!
Thank you for sharing! 🙂
You are welcome! Thank you for commenting =D
I think it is important and something a lot of us lack these days =)
Thank you for reading =)
🙂 My pleasure!