Reply #33: There but for fortune: If a man with a big trust fund marries me...and we lose everthing... [View All]

[AlienGirl]

If a rich man were to fall in love with me, and I with him, and he married me, and he and I lost everything after that, would you still be compassionless--knowing that I had started with less than nothing?

What people have is not what people *are*. I will have compassion for anyone who is suffering. In the case of people who suffer because they can no longer have nonessential luxuries, I will express compassion by teaching that happiness doesn't depend on those things any more than it depended on always having a particular blanket; and by showing that the pain of losing things is temporary.

Tucker