compe.. what ?

Today I learned a new word.

Polyamorous people use it a lot but I think it could be transfered in relationships in general.

Actually, it is something I started practicing without even knowing it has a name.

Do you know the word COMPERSION ?

Article in themedium.com

"If we truly care about somebody, shouldn’t we celebrate their successes as much as our own?

The answer is an obvious yes. Seeing happiness in the ones we love should make us happy too.

But think about how often you hear of good news and your first reaction is envy. Sometimes we feel sad because we want that good thing to happen to us. It’s normal.

Although you may have learned about empathy and compassion, there isn’t a good word that describes the aforementioned feeling of shared joy.

OH ! btw : do you know the difference between empathy and compassion?!

This word exists in other languages. “Mudita,” in Sanskrit, means “the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people’s well-being.” “Unne,” in Norwegian means “to be happy on someone else’s behalf.”

Although the English language doesn’t have an official word for it, there is a lesser-known term for this beautiful feeling: COMPERSION.

Compersion cannot be found in the dictionary, but Wikipedia defines it as “an empathetic state of happiness and joy experienced when another individual experiences happiness and joy.”

It definitely doesn’t come naturally. Sometimes, when I see hear about good things happening to other people, I find myself feeling jealous or envious. But in those cases, I simply remind myself that those feelings accomplish absolutely nothing. Actually, they only make me feel worse.

Compersion, on the other hand, makes me feel excited and it makes my friends feel good too. And that makes me feel even better. So it’s an endless loop of happiness.

It’s a difficult mindset to shift. We’ve been programmed with the same ideas for thousands of years. But with enough practice and awareness, compersion can become a natural reaction." ♥

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