Gentleness

07/11/2022 4 min
Gentleness

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I used to think of compassion, specifically self-compassion, as weakness.Gentleness seemed flaccid. 'Be gentle': It seemed like a consolation prize to offer to someone inept and fragile. I heard it as a veiled insult.Be gentle with yourself. (.....because you can't handle anything more than that, you poor, pitiful thing.)Now I know better.