KEEP THE OLD WARM

Consider your own suffering. In your life, daily encounters, dreams. Hold it in your hand – all the difficulty, pain, struggle, and suffering you have.

Now times that by several billion. That is the world’s suffering.

Knowing each person we meet is suffering the same as us increases empathy and understanding. Knowing our own suffering is not special and is common to all is an incredible feeling.

It allows us connect through empathy to others and feel that electricity between each other. We feel the comradery that gives us the energy to overcome the world’s suffering together.

If we begin from this place, hate for our brothers and sisters is nearly impossible. We cannot hate, for we know that each poor soul is going through it just like us. Not only that, but knowing each person is the same as us in their suffering, we can focus our energy on living a just, true life ourselves, overcoming our own.

Then, when we begin to overcome our own, we help the world by standing as an example that things can improve, the suffering can be alleviated, and we can rise together.

That is music, sunlight, spirit, and truth. We empathize with the world’s suffering to focus on our own and help alleviate our small corner of suffering in life. We will then give others the strength, hope, and courage to begin overcoming their own.

Never forget to do your empathy math homework.

Never forget, we are in this together.