It’s challenging to watch a loved one suffer. We rush to alleviate their hardship in all the ways we think they need our help. Compared with them, our life is bountiful and we want to push the brambles in their path aside and bring them to a place of safety and peace. Our safety, our peace, where we can ensure their well-being. We feel better if we help them, but do they?

This piece is especially relevant to 2020 pressures which include some responses of white people to the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as the effect social media hyper-posting had on introverts during the pandemic quarantine. To lean more about the iconography in this painting visit The Key to The Weight of Compassion in my JOURNAL.