It is easy to find compassion with victims, but victimizers are victims too. As I am reading the news my heart goes out to both the victim and victimizers. You may think how is it possible to have compassion with those harming others often even intentionally, well I feel their pain. I see that the victimizer is acting out of a pain they feel themselves.
What must they have gone through to be capable of such horrible crimes. What happened between the birth of this perfect child and the time this horrible act was done?
We can blame it on their friends, their parents, their partners and all kinds of things...and they are all valid, but if we continue to put the blame on others we will continue to create suffering in this world. What is needed desperately is a change ...a change in responsibility.
I am responsible for these crimes. I, as a society have let others down. I have put material values over family time spent together talking and listening to the needs of others. I, as a society have judged others thinking that I am better than them and I, as a person am responsible thinking that others are to blame for the suffering in this world.
We are the friends, we are the parents, we are the partners, employees and employers.
Can we as a society change? Yes....one person at a time.
What must they have gone through to be capable of such horrible crimes. What happened between the birth of this perfect child and the time this horrible act was done?
We can blame it on their friends, their parents, their partners and all kinds of things...and they are all valid, but if we continue to put the blame on others we will continue to create suffering in this world. What is needed desperately is a change ...a change in responsibility.
I am responsible for these crimes. I, as a society have let others down. I have put material values over family time spent together talking and listening to the needs of others. I, as a society have judged others thinking that I am better than them and I, as a person am responsible thinking that others are to blame for the suffering in this world.
We are the friends, we are the parents, we are the partners, employees and employers.
Can we as a society change? Yes....one person at a time.
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