Britney SpearsChristopher Hansard:[Other People’s Misery]

How the world focuses upon the suffering others.

Take Britney Spears or any other troubled celebrity,

the public thinks that they know them because of the media’s portrayal.

When a person suffers in this very public way it only adds to the intensity of their suffering when it is reported for everyone to add their comment, just as in the Madeline McCann situation, when 18,000 people signed an online petition saying how evil and irresponsible her parents were.

We often have very little right to comment upon another’s hardship…

if we seek to merely condemn them, it will come back to haunt us.

Love, understanding and compassion for another is what every person in truly difficult situations need.

Not an opinion, unless asked for…

We are essentially the same, all of us, friends, lovers, enemies,

and we should focus upon the positive and the beauty

and realise that suffering is a state of living, a state of mind and also a state of being.

Do not focus upon the sufferings of others such as in these examples above,

but look at how we as individuals all contribute to the web of suffering

and what we can do,

you can do, to change that…

Yes, you right now can change that …