The only time most people think about injustice is when it’s happening to them.

Do you hate it when something incredibly unfair is happening to you?

We all do… but are we equally quick to feel incensed about the injustice that happens to others? Or are we so quickly desensitized to the extensive injustice as to make us numb to most of it, and hence, look the other way when we see others being unfairly victimized?

These are consistent societal occurrences across the spectrum of humanity at large.

Human beings are, for the most part, self-centered and internally focused on the microcosm of life in which they occupy.

Their continual perspective revolves entirely around the variables which impact them and those whom they love or care about.

So what is it about certain people who are more capable of feeling outward empathy towards a greater percentage of humanity at large?

Does that stem from upbringing or is it more personal?

Is there something in the genetics that makes one person substantially more empathetic and compassionate than another?

I believe that it is truly a combination of all of these variables and more.

If we are raised by sentient human beings, who are cognizant of the world at large and who work regularly to help people find solutions to injustices of many different kinds, then there is a greater likelihood that we, their offspring, will act and behave accordingly.

In the formative years, we generate internal systems which manifest into personality traits, morals, and values. With these qualities, we are more further equipped to see the world through a filter of greater consideration than just our tightly-woven perimeter of people and relationships that we care about.

In this revised perspective, we are more willing, and perhaps more desirous of helping to champion the concerns and injustices that have befallen others.

This inborn desire to shoulder greater responsibilities than those which we must shoulder under normal circumstances, stems from our ability to abstract their hardship into a feeling of compassion, which gives way to an internal desire to stand up and be counted when someone needs us to advocate on their behalf.

Given the turn of events of late, everyone awakening to understandings of injustice, could not be more timely, nor more required.

Happy Tuesday!