However, you do have to have some hope that will lift you up to this realization first. So, let's establish some facts that will help you with your problem now. There is cruelty in this world and there is also compassion. The inability of people to care about themselves. Compassion may be thought of as the solution to the problem of cruelty but this is not so.
Compassion is the result of the solution to the problem.
The recognition of the fact that there is something that touches the inner most part of our being when someone proves to us that they care for us as much as they do for themselves. When this happens something changes inside of us. We feel something we don't really understand. We feel the warmth and love of someone understanding and helping us, but unless it sinks deeper into our hearts, we remain the recipients of compassion only and not the beneficiaries. To give compassion is to possess its true value.