I recently have been chatting with a new friend and one thing that he does very well is show compassion.  That is sometimes a very hard thing to relay, especially if you are not in a place where you can be around that person.  I say something isn’t going great and I feel like he is genuinely caring about how it is having an impact on me.  I am not really the best at this one which is why it has made my list.  I care about people and I care if they have a good day or bad day, but I have a tendency to be very distracted in conversations if something else is going on.  I am very used to multi tasking at work, listening in on several conversations at the same time – and one sided at that.  So it is a little bit hard for me to focus on what a person is trying to relay to me and that makes it seem like I don’t care as much as I do.

I am not saying that it is OK to complain and keep on about something just to do it, but if you say something like I feel like crap today and they say, I hope you feel better instead of something like – keep that crap to yourself – that is compassion folks

I admit that I am a bit of a whiner, but it’s something that I will pay more attention to and I will also try very hard to make sure people know that when I ask them a question or they are telling me something that they have my attention and I do care to hear what they are saying – I will be picking up what they are putting down!!