Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about compassion

versus responsibility.

More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

Okay, so this will be a short episode with a fairly simple teaching and that is there

is a difference between feeling compassion for a person's experience and feeling responsible

for a person's experience.

There's a difference between feeling compassion for a person's experience and feeling responsible

for a person's experience.

When we feel responsible for a person's experience that we have to take care of how they experience

it in some way that is going into the territory of codependency and a big part of growing

into adulthood where we separate from that child relationship to our environment where

we feel responsible for what's happening around us or even feel a sense of needing to

take care of parents that can easily come into adulthood and so a big part of our development

is the recognition that the only thing we can have control over is our experience.

That is the only thing we are responsible for.

It doesn't mean we don't care about others and it doesn't mean that we might not wish

to ease the suffering of another person's experience but that is very different than

feeling responsible for a person's experience.

So let this one land for you how it will.

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