Cultivating Compassion

Hey Boo,

Its been awhile since I updated this so I figured I would.  I don't want you to think for a second that just because I don't update this often that I don't think of you.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  I think of you absolutely every day.  I just want to hit the interesting bits in my life.  After all when you stumble upon this you shouldn't have to be reading for days.  I wouldn't want you to get bored. Every once in awhile someone will ask me if i'm still doing this blog and I take that as a sign that I should up date it.  Or I'll find that your on my mind more than normal and I'll take the time to update this.  The truth is that if I sat down to write on this every time I thought of you I would never get anything else done.

I'm getting ready to do some more traveling.  It seems its harder to keep still without you in tow.  I'm enjoying the change though.  I needed to get out of Atlanta.  I'll be spending some time in Hawaii it looks like this winter.  That should be cool.  I love to explore new places.  Man we did a lot of that didn't we.

The real thing I wanted to tell you was that it looks like I'll be doing a lot of humanitarian work in one form or another.  You see I have started to really try to view the world the way that I viewed you.  I try to treat everyone with the same compassion that I would treat you and I have to tell you that has changed everything in my life.  Son, I can tell you from experience how much damage anger and hatred can do.  I will destroy a person without a doubt.  Compassion however seems to have really saved me from myself.  So I am really enjoying this stage in my life.  So that is essentially what I wanted to say.  Anger bad, compassion good.  It is important not to hold on to anger.  I know at times it may feel as though people are out to hurt you but everyone just does the best they can with what they have.  Everyone is just trying not to get hurt themselves.  The truth is Boo they are all scared to death.

I try not to take anything that people do personal even if it is directed toward me.  I see them as suffering people trying to avoid pain and I try to respond as much as I can with compassion.  I treat them the same way I would treat you.  See, you taught me a lot.  Anyway that is it for now.

I love you so much boo.