How To Not Suck

[ehowton]

While cracked.com is always entertaining to read, rarely do I find such evaluative wisdom within its pages - which is exactly what I found in David Wong's article, 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person.

I ran across this link on someone's page who really needed to hear it as it hailed back to a discussion in 2008 concerning

Comments

[suzanne1945]

Excellent! People like to think that they are caring individuals and with some that means "I care as long as it does not cost me anything." True caring means being able to do things that may not be to your liking, but benefits someone else. Caring means putting away your ego and being willing to go outside your comfort zone when some one needs that from you. There are those who can do that, but pride themselves on their sacrifice. Doing the hard things and subverting ones self without praising yourself for said sacrifice is true compassion. Anything less than that is a sham.
And surprisingly, if one reaches true compassion, the inner rewards are astounding.
Is it always easy to do this? No! It is something that needs practice and constant reevaluating of self. You have to do the work!

[ehowton]

I honestly don't know where the division comes from. Its easy to have these conversations with people who behave that way, less so for those who do not. "Nuh-uh" is the number one reply I get. Hard to base anything substantial from it. Its not that we have to agree, rather that we have to each understand and acknowledge our own nature. To that end I am becoming less and less surprised at how few people are aware of anything whatsoever.

My new answer to "Do you think you're better than me?" is going to change to, "Yes," because only those who are entirely devoid of the complexity of the mechanics of life ask me that, and that's a pretty solid platform for quantifying my answer.