Compassion At Any Price

Things happen in life to all different people, with different backgrounds and different income levels. It is all relative to where you are in life. Take for example what happened to billionaire Steve Wynn. A great and valuable Picasso painting being shown to friends is accidentally punctured...by the owner himself!

A lot of value gone in an instant. You may think why feel bad for someone with so much money. Why not feel a bit of sorrow? A beautiful original painting that can be repaired but also it meant a lot to a person. That person may have more then you or I, but still they are a person.

There is a limit of course to the compassion, Mr. Wynn will be just fine in his loss. But when it comes to the misfortune of others, your instinct should not be to immediately 'pile on'. Find it in yourself to have a reasonable amount of sympathy. It may just be you next time having lost something of importance.

"Make no judgments where you have no compassion." - Anne McCaffrey