Compassion

It has been awhile since I posted something. Assignments have been catching up with me lately. Also I think I am spending quite abit of alone time trying to grapple with a couple of things. One would be the idea and practice of compassion. When do we exercise compassion, towards whom...? Or is compassion meant to be ever-present. If so, what if you get sliced and hurt in the process?
I have experienced quite abit of stuff in the last month or so. I have to say I probably have always seen this but now the ridiculousness of it all is what I have been dealing with in order to overcome it by being bigger than it.
Hypocrasy is a big one. Little lost kids pretending to be nice in person because they are too afraid to discuss or display all that they truly feel so they mask it. Instead it comes out through a backdoor and accidentally through the catdoor.
Selfishness. This one is rather tricky. Some may argue that people are all selfish. It is human nature to be self-interested and self-centered. How much is too much though? Then there are people who are unaware or have chosen to be unaware. I fear for these ones. They might have come thus far being selfish but there will be a wall somewhere to crash into. Your every selfish act is like a brick of that wall.You every selfish thought is like the cement holding the actions/bricks together. When you slam right into it because you are too busy looking at you, I hope for your sake, people who care are there.
Matyrs. Have you met one yet? I'm sure you have. The little boys and girls who have experienced nothing in their little cosy lives who have suddenly decided to go all spiritual guru on you? Where are they coming from? Who are they to speak? Almost every time they never practice what they preach.
So how does compassion fit the picture? Simple. Through the understanding that sometimes people, humans are lost. Beings are never lost. The soul is never lost. It knows what needs to get done and be done in order to evolve. However, the mind/ego have kicked into 5th gear thus ignoring the soul. The nature of the mind is to drag you to many different places as described by Buddha as the monkey mind. So with the ego in a dominant position, the person is lost. They spend all day playing out the craziness of their mind. Hanging in mid-air. Throwing kicks and punches at the world because that is their mind's idea of self-defense. In their self-defense mode, they hurt people like you and me. Walking by and just being friends.
Compassion kicks in when you can look em in the eye and say. Its okay. I forgive you.
Compassion kicks in when you know in your heart. They don't know any better.