Dreaded obligation v. great, important work
This is a whole damn thing
The world is a lot right now, and seems to keep finding ways to be more a lot. But, today, I want to think about the source of empathy and compassion— where the practice of it might come from guilt or a sense of obligation versus where it feels energizing and important, and write into that. Maybe that means writing into your own sense of this, or maybe that means writing about it in a broader, communal or societal way, or maybe that means writing about a person living that practice. The details are up to you. Let’s write.
