Have been playing with this idea lately of micro-compassion. Now, I think most people by now are familiar with the term micro-aggression. If you're not microaggressions are just those little passive-aggressive things we do to each other sometimes that just tries to pack at someone's self-esteem or someone's someone's it integrity even.
It's just a little things that we might do to diminish or demean those around us and we're all fallible. We all kind of fall into this trap sometimes of. Somebody being in our life that have maybe caused us harm or has hurt us in some way and so we bite back we try to hurt them.
Micro compassion is kind of the opposite of a microaggression Michael compassion in in my view is really an effort to make someone's life or their day a little bit better. So it could simply be a compliment to someone for what they've done for a job well done or for something that very clearly they are taking pride in maybe it's a, Something they've taken pride in their accomplishment or the way they address where they have appear but it's taking that and acknowledging those efforts and acknowledging and giving some validation to that person.
I mean, that's what we can think of as a micro-compassion. So it could be going to have a coffee and and the if the person serving your coffee seems like they're having a glum day. Just giving them a little bit of encouragement asking them, you know, as your shift getting over soon.
Has it been? Really busy today and just seeing if you can give them a little bit of a little bit of a kind of a pepper a little bit of a happy thought. And so I think what we have to do is as stop going about our lives as just drones that are kind of making it through your day and finding things that you're going to do that are inward focused but look a little bit more outside of ourselves and not trying to dramatically change someone's life.
You're not trying to save them. You're just trying to give them a little bit of a bright spot. In the course of their day and I think validating something they've done looking at them and giving them a compliment on what they've been able to accomplish. That's a really incredible thing even if it is just someone who's made you a good cup of coffee.
Tell them thank you. That's an awesome cup of coffee. I really appreciate you taking the time to make it as good as you can. And you'd be amazed at how many relationships can emerge just from those few moments that you take to really sincerely complement somebody's attitude or behavior.
This can really go a long way to see. Ing new friendships new relationships and and making your your life even better.
