Honestly, how compassionate are you?

If I asked most people I spoke with if they were compassionate, most would believe they are. Most people know compassion is apart from ruthless, and they do not believe they are ruthless, so they believe they have compassion. You don’t have to tell me, (I wouldn’t expect you to anyhow) but ask yourself how compassionate are you? If you:

• Seen a teen hung up on a barbed wire fence and you got closer you recognized him as the person you seen ripping you off of something outside your home. Would you help him get loose?

• You are driving along and see a car disabled because it slid off the road and banged a tree hard enough to bend the axle making the car un-drivable. If you see it was the woman in another office that always cussed you out in the parking lot at work, would you stop and help her?

• You are out jogging, cycling, dog walking, etc and you come upon a dazed fallen cyclist with a bloodied face. If you started to help him clean up and once enough blood was from his face you recognize him as the man on the flyers someone posted up around the neighborhood as having molested a girl in his past, even though the details was not posted. Would you stop assisting him or finish what you started?

• A new hire came in and you are the decision maker, it is up to you to say yea or nay to the job. You recognize the young woman has an underground porn star who videos had all sorts of kinky sex. Do you hire her if she was qualified, or pass her up for the next person that was just under her in qualifications but with a cleaner past?

You can say anything to the collective, but you know in your heart how compassionate you are. In each of those four scenarios, how many could you, or would you show compassion in, or make an excuse not to?