None knows the weight of another’s burden.

— George Herbert

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

From the outside you see the circumstance and not the load. Two people can carry what looks like the same trouble, and one is fine while the other is barely holding, because weight depends on everything already being carried and none of that shows. Comparison is poor guidance for this reason, both when it makes you harsh with someone else and when it makes you dismiss your own difficulty as unearned. Nobody is grading it.

When you catch yourself deciding that a person is overreacting, sit inside the not knowing. Ask a question instead of reaching the verdict.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose difficulty have you judged without knowing its full weight?

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