What if Irony is Judging Others for Lacking Empathy?
There are minor details
that warrant perfection
before release
even if it doesn’t matter
to some.
Then there are major details
that does not warrant perfection
before release
because the point
is to test our fear.
Where failure itself
will be as valuable
as success.
We are often paralyzed
in front of the prospect
of doing the latter.
Our consciousness
can have trouble empathizing
with our thoughts, emotions, or behaviors.
Our consciousness
can have trouble empathizing
with the thoughts, emotions, or behaviors
of others,
be it animate or inanimate.
Our consciousness
can have trouble empathizing
with the thoughts, emotions, or behaviors
of our larger system,
be it our family,
society,
nation,
or ecosystem.
Those who crave to take ownership
will fill a void,
whenever there isnt something clear
that they own.
after exiting from a company
“What just happened?”
I asked the founder,
noticing his facial muscles
and shoulders
relax.
“I just realized
I don’t have to force myself
to change
to be the kind of person
who takes
responsibility.”
he responded.
If to be human
is to support
and to be supported,
we
allow one’s self
to be supported by another person
being fully human
can be hard.
If we do not know what kind of support we need
If we do not think we need support
Assumptions
and expectations
can arise
from a place of hope
or judgment.
If we find ourselves
judging ourselves
for having judgments
we may also choose
or learn to choose
to clarify,
accept
and appreciate
the hope we have
A “leader”
is merely
a label.
What matters
is whether we
lead
regardless
of the label.
Not whether we call ourselves
or others
leaders
When tension amounts
it introduces stiffness,
aches,
and knots,
which impacts
our mobility.
It isn’t
that we are merely unwilling
to change our position,
but that changing positions
is hard
due to stiffness,
aches,
and knots.
Help us relieve our tension
and we will naturally change
positions.
May we
start
with the intention
to help
others.
But before helping,
may we put down
some of the weight we’re carrying
—even if temporarily—
especially the one,
where we feel responsible
for the other’s
happiness,
to affords us the ability
to share
the other person’s weight
by supporting them
instead of taking their weight
away
from them.
After helping,
appreciate their gratitude
instead of ignoring
or trivializing them.
I don’t know,
so I suck.
I know,
so I rock.
I don’t know,
so I create.