Christian virtues · The purpose
Compassion
Definition
Compassion is entering another person’s suffering far enough to relieve it, without owning them.
The lesson
It is not pity, and it is not a feeling you mention. Pity looks down. Compassion comes close, does the useful thing, and does not require the person to become your project.
Find one person who is actually having a hard time. Do one concrete thing that lightens it. Stay long enough to know whether it helped. Then stop, unless they ask you to stay.
Relieve one real burden today. Do not tell the story afterward.
Softness that will not act, or help that keeps the person small so you can keep helping.