COMPASSIONS

To begin this post let me define what compassion is (or should be) it literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another's suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering. Compassion is not the same as empathy or altruism, though the concepts are related.

I was asked what I meant by saying that Michele has no human compassion for me and I must distinguish human from animal compassion.

In fact Michele has a great compassion for suffering animals, she’s the kind of person who’d get out of her way, or change her route just because she sees either a dog or a horse with a broken leg or even with a sad expression in the eyes.

Therefore make no mistake about the ability for Michele to have any compassion, I actually believe that if I was a dog she’d never ran away from me, I’d rather be sleeping in the same bed with her and taken very well care of.

I’m not putting here any link to compassion websites; I’m hoping it’ll be sufficient to put these two pictures of suffering “animals”, in fact I can bet a trillion of $$$ that if I was any kind of animal Michele would keep me very close to her and would do all that’s necessary to take away such a sad expression from my face.