I am working my way through the NA Step Study Guides [sic] workbook
writing a page of cursive every night before writing this blog post. Now I am on the 9th step where it
was discussing compassion and empathy.
I have always felt for people in bad situations. Since I was already emotionally shut-down,
my sense of compassion and empathy for others was limited. Part of me was afraid of making their
problems my problems as if they were contagious diseases.
Today I am much better able to have compassion and empathy for others
while having at least semi-healthy boundaries to recognize that their problems
are not my problems.
I am grateful for my increased compassion and empathy for others while
being less shut-down than how it used to be.
It makes me feel that much more a part of the human condition instead of
being terminally unique and filled with self-pity.
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