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November 2009 
Who do you wish you had more compassion for?
Posted on Oct 9th, 2009
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tinkonthebrink
tinkonthebrink
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 09, 2009:
Now see, here's where I run into a problem: if I really wished I had more compassion then I wouldn't be so bitchy about certain things in the first place, now would I?
Here is an incomplete list of my compassion-free zone: bad drivers, drunk drivers, smokers, the morbidly obese, morbidly obese smoking drunk bad drivers, people who wear polyester clothing, and people who complain all the time. Just for starters. It's all I can do to keep myself from telling you why it's totally reasonable for me to feel this way so I think compassion is still a ways off.
One of the morbidly obese folks in my universe seems to eat nothing but pancakes and french toast. Another eats only junk food and fast food - and she smokes cigarettes. Both of them are constantly injured and ill, and when I say constantly, that is not an exaggeration. Even if I had started out feeling some compassion it would have run dry a while back.
I'm sure the Dalai Lama would not be so bitchy, but he's an exceptionally nice person. There you have it.
Here is an incomplete list of my compassion-free zone: bad drivers, drunk drivers, smokers, the morbidly obese, morbidly obese smoking drunk bad drivers, people who wear polyester clothing, and people who complain all the time. Just for starters. It's all I can do to keep myself from telling you why it's totally reasonable for me to feel this way so I think compassion is still a ways off.
One of the morbidly obese folks in my universe seems to eat nothing but pancakes and french toast. Another eats only junk food and fast food - and she smokes cigarettes. Both of them are constantly injured and ill, and when I say constantly, that is not an exaggeration. Even if I had started out feeling some compassion it would have run dry a while back.
I'm sure the Dalai Lama would not be so bitchy, but he's an exceptionally nice person. There you have it.
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Yeah, well, Jeannie, I think it's safe to say he's got a few centuries under his belt to get over all of this stuff that makes the rest of us fume. God Bless him, that he can smile at all is a testament to his sunny nature.
when i see people who hurt themselves that badly, i really wonder why. what led them to become morbidly obese, to smoke? what happened in their childhood, what do they tell themselves, how do they live in those ungainly heavy bodies?
love to you
compassion-free zone…I don't know why, but you always make me grin. Love your honesty!
I'm sensing a new traffic sign, “You Are Entering a Compassion Free Zone” So expect little or no sympathy!
Yes, all those who do that amazing damage to themselves always confound me. As Dr. Phil (what an ass-clown) would say, “How's that workin' out for ya?”
I actually like dr phil. I can't take too much of him, but I do think he's a fairly sensible person. There, an embarrassing confession.
In small doses, yes. It helps when I have just taken my Oxycontin, then he seems to be downright witty!
on my deathbed I don't want dr.phil or oprah wishing me godspeed….maybe kate smith singing god bless america would be humorous.
there's plenty of folks that damage themselves with a psychology behind it all that makes perfect sense to them, so i can't begrudge them. it's when they start damaging others (smoking in a house with children, drinking and driving, etc) that i'm on board with tink!