We Should End This Year of “purgatory” With Compassion
By: Colin Munro Wood
Tags: Covid 19, Love, Illumination, Humanity, Compassion

We aren’t all Catholic or one of several religions in the world, nor do we all believe in God. But why can’t we all believe in compassion right now, the one thing all of humanity has and should have in common?

Seeking human kindness

As the photo depicts, there are people all over the planet seeking human kindness, daily. Maybe I’m guessing at this, but I’d bet that there has always been either one or more persons seeking human kindness since the genesis of modern man in Ethiopia, even prior to Earth’s first (Mesopotamian) community.

Every day, someone desperately needs human kindness and compassion. The difference between the two most important characteristics of modern man, which have allowed us to surpass the lack of goodness in some humans, to advance to where we are today, can be defined as in one giving one money for a bus ride, or helping someone across the street, whereas the other is more well-defined as looking outside the subjectiveness of self-subjugating opinions and feelings, by allowing objectiveness to release feelings of caring, empathy, and a deeper soul-felt emotion toward another human, whether you like them, or not.

Do we all feel kindness and compassion?

That’s the priceless question about our species. Are we going to allow a lack of empathy, kindness, and compassion to rule the day, and let 2020, or COVID to send humans on a crash course to self-annihilation?

I’d like to believe, we will not. I want to believe that there are more humans with these three vital traits in the world than there are not. We all have to believe we can defeat anything that comes our way as one community of beings, and one species on this planet by pulling these traits from deep within us and putting everything else aside.

This is how America has always survived, and it is what the world must do to survive an extremely sensitive moment in modern human history.

I ask of you, does it matter if it’s Trump, Putin, XingXaing, or any other leader that comes down with this horrid disease, stretching its arms to harm communities, societies, and even countries, as it is doing to America and others?

Isn’t it time for everyone to put aside politics, religion, hate, and demonizing in order to put mass kindness and compassion at the forefront? Wouldn’t that be the way to defeat COVID or any harmful infiltration that can bring down humans?

COVID-19 has shown humans what really should matter

How many of us have watched the same movies, and binged the same shows? Which ones are the ones that regale the most attention or honor? The most popular and infamous films have always been the ones that show humans being the best we can be to each other.

Whether they have been romance, super-hero, war, westerns, sci-fi, or any genre, the ones with kindness and compassion, and humans putting other humans first, have been the money-makers and the award winners in most cases.

However, we have moved more towards a society of judgment, hate, and despising of one another on social media, and flocking to “our kind”. Rarely, do some of us take a chance to not fit in with any side, and speak truth, and unity.

But even I and others who want love, kindness, and compassion allow our inhumane side of our humanness to alit and take flight in our blood, which pushed us to a boiling point of exploding ourselves with the worst in us toward that with which we don’t agree.

Almost all humans are guilty of this at times. This is why each of us has to slow down and truly become objective of all that is happening in the world and ask ourselves, do we have what it takes to be a firestarter for compassion in the world in our personal lives and to those around us?

I have spent only the past few days thinking about this myself, and realizing, that if I want to change, I need to always be that change. Not just when I feel it, but more so when I’m not feeling it. The same goes for each one of us.

Covid-19 has taken so much from everyone in the world. It has touched every human alive, accept a few small island nations. It has taken family members, destroyed multiple economies, and caused mass lay-offs and panic at the stores.

Covid-19 has changed everyone’s lives in one way or another, and if everyone, and I mean everyone stepped back into the objective reality of what is happening everywhere, maybe it would be easier for all of us to just stop the hate and enact the deeper sense of survival in each of us, that has always saved humanity from self-destruction.

Can we end this year of “purgatory” on a good note?

With Halloween around the corner, this could be a great chance for everyone to put on the same mask around the world. Masks of love, kindness, caring, and compassion.

We could all make Halloween 2020, the most spiritual and soulful celebration ever, of the usually ghoulish day, and stretch it to Christmas. Imagine what 2021 could be like if the world spent the next 3 months spreading the best part about being human to each person we are in contact with, live, or on social media.

Purgatory, under Catholicism, is supposed to be a temporary place of suffering, until our spirits figure out which path they will take, after death. Hasn’t 2020 been purgatory, in a sense, for everyone on Earth?

Photo by Leighann Blackwood on Unsplash

If that’s the case, then I’d suggest we all choose the better path, stay on it, and awake each day with the hope that compassion brings with it, and the love that emanates from the greatest characteristic all humans are born with.