Compassion

"We only met an hour or so before, but spending time at the bar with Melanie tonight I couldn't help but notice how compassionate she is. I have to say, she was really generous with her time and I could tell she genuinely cared about what I've been going through."

Compassion means, quite literally, to 'suffer with' others. It is, therefore, a sense of fellow-feeling with other people's pain or suffering.

Compassion is caring about others and behaving toward them with affection, generosity, and concern. Compassion is not the same as empathy (where you put yourself in someone else's shoes); it's about having genuine feelings for other people's struggles.

It's the result of seeing someone suffering, deciding that they do not deserve it, and feeling that something similar could easily happen to you, or to someone that we care about. It often leads us to take some action to help that other person.

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