There is a sentence in Fyodor Dostoevsky‘s ’The Idiot‘ related to the main character Prince Myshkin that goes something like this..
’Compassion may be the only law that governs mankind‘ (though I will change that to humankind than mankind)
How true and simple but at the same time how incapable we become to embody that in our lives.
We are not inherently bad or vile but we become worse than our wildest dreams without even knowing what we impact.
So unaware we are about ourselves… How far and villainous and evil we are from Dostoevsky‘s idiot..
I think we should strive to be more of a good idiot than a bad human being… Compassion… even if it makes us look stupid in the current world it will help build a compassionate, better, equal world…
Not just that… life is so short in the larger scheme of things.
The little things are what makes life worth it… a smile.. a hug.. a help… an ear when needed… quietness… an element of calm.. a time together… a real honest laugh… All of these and more when we least expect it.
Life is not worth anything we make… it is only measured by how we make other people feel. Every week I end with the moments I made someone feel bad and so often I have a week I have one such incident and I feel smal, low and ashamed. 🙏
Penpositive 
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