#compasion

Encuentra a alguien que te quiera bien.

Que nunca te empequeñezca, ni siquiera cuando las palabras ardan en medio de una discusión.

Alguien que sea suave contigo, pero que no te trate como si fueras de cristal.

Que vea tu fuerza sin temerla, que reconozca el fuego que llevas dentro y, en lugar de apagarlo, lo celebre como quien contempla una estrella.

No busques a quien se intimide con tu luz.

Busca a quien camine a tu lado sin pedirte que brilles menos.

Encuentra a alguien que no te haga sentir culpable por tus grietas.

El amor no existe para castigar las imperfecciones del alma.

El amor existe para abrazarlas.

Y recuerda siempre esto: la persona que te ama también está hecha de fracturas.

También conoce el peso de sus propios errores.

Nadie es perfecto.

No conviertas el amor en un juicio ni en una medida imposible de alcanzar.

Busca a alguien paciente.

Alguien que sepa esperar, que sepa perdonar, y que tenga la humildad de decir “lo siento” cuando el orgullo quiera hablar más fuerte.

Ama a alguien que practique el perdón como quien respira: libremente, con frecuencia, sin miedo.

Ama a alguien humilde, amable, profundamente humano.

Alguien que no solo sea bueno contigo, sino también con el desconocido que se cruza en su camino, con el mendigo en la acera, con el extraño en la fila del supermercado.

Porque la verdadera bondad no se actúa: se revela en lo cotidiano.

La cortesía importa.

La compasión importa.

La bondad importa.

Y al final, cuando el mundo sea demasiado duro y la vida pese más de lo esperado, lo único que realmente sostendrá el amor no será la perfección, sino dos almas imperfectas que eligen, una y otra vez, tratarse con ternura.

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This homeless man, he was speaking out loud. Not to anyone in particular. He was just speaking out loud, in a volume that was just a little bit loud, so that a decent amount of people could hear but no one would be bothered. 

He talked about how the federal government was not doing enough to combat climate change and protect the environment. He talked about how climate change was getting worse and the government wasn't doing enough to stop it because they cared about the fossil fuel industry more than peoples' lives. He mentioned how scary it was that there still wasn't snow in November. 

He also voiced that public transit (buses, LRT, etc) should be free. Because that would help the environment and because it would give homeless people a space to stay out of the cold. Also because it would help poor people get to where they needed to go without becoming broke. He expressed that it gets really cold in the winter. And especially recently, since climate change is causing the Arctic vortex to get looser so all the cold winds from the Arctic are coming into the south. And if homeless people had somewhere warmer to go in the winter, like a bus for example, that would really help a lot of people. 

He discussed how most homeless people don't act rowdy or unruly on the bus, and how a lot of middle class people do act rowdy and unruly on the bus. Which tracks well with what I've seen, the only rowdy people I've seen have all been middle class, and I've ridden the bus a whole lot. And he discussed how homeless people have a human right to be somewhere warm. 

He talked about anti homeless architecture on the buses. The new seats on the buses, the plastic seats, they make it harder for people to lie down and sleep. (There are three places on each bus that each have three seats in a row together and one place that has five seats.) He explained how if there are enough seats for everyone, which there often is, then homeless people sleeping on the bus aren't bothering or hurting anyone. 

He also explained that homeless people deserve to be able to sleep on the bus, because they deserve somewhere to sleep that isn't cold. See the thing is, and most people in my city don't know this, the homeless shelters are overflowing and they don't have enough space for everyone. Anyways, as the homeless man was explaining, a lot of homeless people have no choice but to sleep outside. And when you sleep outside on a day or night when it's really cold (which is happening more frequently due to the polar vortex becoming looser and coming south due to climate change), you may not wake up at all. Or you will wake up with frost bite and lose body parts. This really disturbed me, the reality of people going to sleep in the horrific cold and not waking up at all. 

He discussed the inflation that is happening recently due to corporate price gouging. How food is more expensive, and homeless people can't afford to buy the food they need. He discussed how it's hard for homeless people to buy food to begin with since they can't cook anything due to not having kitchens. 

And he expressed how so many of the people he met on the streets were the kindest people ever. How they had so much kindness for him. How they gave up what little they had in order to help him out. How they were so generous, how they helped him and each other even at great personal sacrifice. He talked about how someone even gave him their shoes once. 

I told him that I was listening to what he was saying, that I agreed and that I was glad he was saying this. He shook my hand, and then we sat down to talk together. He told me that he wasn't lazy, that he had to walk around all day. I told him that that must be exhausting. And truly it is very exhausting having to walk around all day, I know that from personal experience. And homeless people do have to do that because if they stay in one place then the cops come to beat them and steal their possessions. He talked about how he made sure to properly put out his cigarettes so that he didn't cause fires, and about how he didn't litter. 

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."

"Todos tenemos algo que mostrar a las personas correctas"