Suffering
The one truly shared human experience is suffering. At some point we have all endured a pain, trauma, loss, mistake or failure that has caused us all to suffer. Not all receive love or success, peace or comfort, happiness or joy. And those a fleeting at most. Not all have been jealous or angry, hateful or arrogant, lost or bewildered. Yet it astounds me that when we see those that are suffering we ignore, dismiss, justify, blame, and at it’s worse treat them with disdain for their misfortune. We all talk a big talk about helping people, giving to charity, donating to that jar with the teary eyed dark child on the front, we tell ourselves...