I think the people who have experienced the most sadness are the ones who always try their hardest to make other people happy. Because they know in their own flesh what it’s like to feel empty and depressed, and they don’t want anyone else to feel that way.

I think the people who have experienced the most sadness are the ones who always try their hardest to make other people happy. Because they know in their own flesh what it’s like to feel empty and depressed, and they don’t want anyone else to feel that way.

ROBIN WILLIAMS

If you have ever experienced a pit of sadness and despair, did it arm you with a greater degree of compassion for those who are feeling same?

The irony of having a down cycle modify your behavior towards others is not coincidental. The opportunity to experience such is one of life’s most delicate balances, in the sense that within our ability to cope with the variables that are oppressing us, we are growing stronger. This strength accrues over time and when we see another who is trying to process their way through a similar state of mind, our compassion kicks in, and we want to provide the proper stimulation as to help them traverse their pathway through those emotions and help provide them a bridge to leverage in their journey.

We become hypersensitive to those emotional circumstances which we can relate to. It may be having overcome an illness or malady, coping with a serious situation that another whom we love is having to go through working on trying to extricate ourselves from difficult moments in our career, working our way through an addiction, or any one of other countless causes to bring any one of us from our elevated state of existence down into a new depth of despair.

Once we have traversed such a chasm of insanity, we know first hand how and why such a journey can be all-consuming… and in that first person understanding, we recognize how we found our way through it, and we can more readily understand what another person is trying to cope with.

Our ability to reach deep within and be of service to another, is truly divinely inspired. Our desire to extend of ourselves and try as best as we may to help another to their feet and empower them to continue on their pathway in life, becomes accentuated by our own identification with their stress/fear/pain and stimulates our desire to help them to work to find solutions to bring them to a higher place.

Look for this quality in yourself and cultivate it to the extent as makes sense in your life.

You never know what that fraternal gesture of love can truly mean to another who is weathering variables only some of which you may be aware.

Your act of love can mean the world to them.

Happy Saturday!