Kinder and gentler

In order to be kinder and gentler with others we need to first start with ourselves. The overbearing weight of judgment holds us back and we often carry the voices of our parents and society in our heads telling us to measure up.

The problem is often not us but the ingested metrics we bought into. When we fail to measure up we become our worst enemies and then proceed to pass judgment on others as panacea.

Our salvation here is realizing how much of the weight we carry is completely unnecessary and that we can drop it to unburden the psyche. This has been my primary realization over the years.

You look behind the meaning and purpose of much of what we are sold only to find a lack of rationality and most of all empathy.