#compasal

[hale-my-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Without Doubt - Comparison

Not A Shadow Of A Doubt

[marvelstars]

Shmi, Anakin and the Sun - Dragon

Often, however, Watto was unkind, understanding that nothing could stop him from doing what he wanted because Shmi had nothing valuable to trade, besides her son whom she would never trade. Thus, Watto took advantage of this frequently , requiring the boy to podrace, much to Shmi's anger. During one race, she watched in horror as Anakin crashed once again, but was surprised when he had not been thrown from his podracer for once. Watto approached her, yet again dismissing her concerns that Anakin could be seriously hurt before flying off. She made her way down to the racing pit where she reunited with Anakin and saw that his legs had become twisted from the crash. While she knew that Watto would pay to ensure his slave's legs recovered, Shmi held onto her son's hand to comfort herself. Before the rustic, yet effective, medical droids made Anakin unconscious to work on his legs, Anakin promised he would always be with her, yet Shmi privately wish he would one day leave her for a better life.

Despite the horrors in which Anakin grew up, Shmi still tried to give him a normal childhood. She taught him how to fix things and fend for himself, since the Republic was never there for her. She taught him that he deserved more than a slave's life. Most of all, she taught him compassion.

On hard nights, Shmi would tell Anakin the Tatooine myth of the sun-dragon. The sun-dragon was a beast who lived inside the core of a star, guarding everything it treasured. It could survive through the hardest circumstances because it had the biggest heart in the galaxy, able to protect anything and everything it loved. Shmi told this story to her son to remind him that he was the sun-dragon. She never wanted Anakin to doubt in himself and the power of his love for others. Anakin recalled this story many times as an adult when he needed to remember what should guide him. It was something he kept close and told very few other people.

Sources:https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Shmi_Skywalker_Lars

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

2373- El verdadero amor es el respeto, la admiración, la compasión y la bondad

(Dan Barker)

[normalbirb]

"wow we finally got some news abou the new avatar show and it looks really interesting! lets see what others have to say about it"

the fandom: *being its usual cynical way*

"mhm, i see :)"

[sparksinthenight]

So I was taking the bus home from school today. There was a homeless man on the bus, seated across from where I was standing. He was pale and had brown hair and a beard. He was 31, according to what he said. The bus had maybe forty people in it. Not crowded but not empty either.

This homeless man, he was speaking out loud. Not to anyone in particular. He was just speaking out loud, in a volume that was just a little bit loud, so that a decent amount of people could hear but no one would be bothered. 

He talked about how the federal government was not doing enough to combat climate change and protect the environment. He talked about how climate change was getting worse and the government wasn't doing enough to stop it because they cared about the fossil fuel industry more than peoples' lives. He mentioned how scary it was that there still wasn't snow in November. 

He also voiced that public transit (buses, LRT, etc) should be free. Because that would help the environment and because it would give homeless people a space to stay out of the cold. Also because it would help poor people get to where they needed to go without becoming broke. He expressed that it gets really cold in the winter. And especially recently, since climate change is causing the Arctic vortex to get looser so all the cold winds from the Arctic are coming into the south. And if homeless people had somewhere warmer to go in the winter, like a bus for example, that would really help a lot of people. 

He discussed how most homeless people don't act rowdy or unruly on the bus, and how a lot of middle class people do act rowdy and unruly on the bus. Which tracks well with what I've seen, the only rowdy people I've seen have all been middle class, and I've ridden the bus a whole lot. And he discussed how homeless people have a human right to be somewhere warm. 

He talked about anti homeless architecture on the buses. The new seats on the buses, the plastic seats, they make it harder for people to lie down and sleep. (There are three places on each bus that each have three seats in a row together and one place that has five seats.) He explained how if there are enough seats for everyone, which there often is, then homeless people sleeping on the bus aren't bothering or hurting anyone. 

He also explained that homeless people deserve to be able to sleep on the bus, because they deserve somewhere to sleep that isn't cold. See the thing is, and most people in my city don't know this, the homeless shelters are overflowing and they don't have enough space for everyone. Anyways, as the homeless man was explaining, a lot of homeless people have no choice but to sleep outside. And when you sleep outside on a day or night when it's really cold (which is happening more frequently due to the polar vortex becoming looser and coming south due to climate change), you may not wake up at all. Or you will wake up with frost bite and lose body parts. This really disturbed me, the reality of people going to sleep in the horrific cold and not waking up at all. 

He discussed the inflation that is happening recently due to corporate price gouging. How food is more expensive, and homeless people can't afford to buy the food they need. He discussed how it's hard for homeless people to buy food to begin with since they can't cook anything due to not having kitchens. 

And he expressed how so many of the people he met on the streets were the kindest people ever. How they had so much kindness for him. How they gave up what little they had in order to help him out. How they were so generous, how they helped him and each other even at great personal sacrifice. He talked about how someone even gave him their shoes once. 

I told him that I was listening to what he was saying, that I agreed and that I was glad he was saying this. He shook my hand, and then we sat down to talk together. He told me that he wasn't lazy, that he had to walk around all day. I told him that that must be exhausting. And truly it is very exhausting having to walk around all day, I know that from personal experience. And homeless people do have to do that because if they stay in one place then the cops come to beat them and steal their possessions. He talked about how he made sure to properly put out his cigarettes so that he didn't cause fires, and about how he didn't litter. 

I told him that I wished I had something I could give him. (At the time I didn't have any money or food on me and I didn't even have a hat on me.) He said it was okay since he had some raw chicken hot dogs and some wonder bread and some cheap ketchup. I had to get off the bus at that point because it was my stop. But I believe that it's very important that his story is told and shared. 

[ourinternallandscapetarot]

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."

~Mary Anne Radmacher

[entrevenas]

"Todos tenemos algo que mostrar a las personas correctas"

@entrevenas

[irontragedyreview]

Esto pasa cuando votas como el orto y despues tenes la caradures de sorprenderte 👇🏻

[magnoliamyrrh]

some ppls critique of alicent is so idk boring like the way they hate her is boring like yes she clearly has issues of hypocrisy and attachment but what do u expect from someone whose mother died growing up had her father use her married her off to an old ass rotting king when she was like 14-15 had to endure years of marital rape had kids young she never wanted??? i think the portrayal of her issues with not being able to comfort her kids her lack of knowing how to love them etc is Brilliant actually. ppl arent disliking her in fun enough ways

[emvisual]

La danza de las mil manos de Kwan Yin'.

Es una danza Kwan Yin, la Bodhisattva de la Compasión. Su nombre significa "la que oye el llanto del mundo".

En la devoción popular, Kuan Yin rescata a quienes acuden a ella en momentos de dificultad. La Bodhisattva comprende los entimientos de temor y responde a las peticiones de ayuda con su Compasión.

[hale-my-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Pick Next Caregiver-In-Chief

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This episode where Anakin decides to train a group of farmers in self- defense so they can better protect themselves from the bounty hunters and pirates that had been attacking their farms always made me remember Li shang from Mulan, the only difference being that Anakin is doing this just because he wants to help, not because he is preparing them as recruits for the civil war.

Really fun episode

Bonus points for Anakin using a farmers saying that he most possibly learned from the Lars.

It says a lot about his character, as someone who was helpless for many years he knows how frustrating and painful can be to not be able to defend yourself and those you love, to depend on other people to do so for you and so given they could not stay or send help to their planet, Anakin did what was going to work the best for them, which was give them the tools to be able to defend themselves and take care of their own.

This is also what separates Anakin from Vader´s pov because while Vader would have taken over the planet and put an empire guard over it, Anakin just lest them do their own thing and helps them use their own resources to make their lives better and so they are better prepared to take care of themselves, actions like these are the ones he dreamed he could be doing as a Jedi when he was a kid and he isn´t doing this as an order from the council, he is doing this because he simply wants to help.

[spooky-kakashi]

a lot of writers actually forget this

[anarchypig0]

Gracias, gracias, mil veces gracias @bei-xxx por una plantilla y una idea tan chula. Te beso los pies.

[yvotyrants]

here's how shaunamari can still win

[fishedeyelenz]

"I'm not a fascist you are" while calling kinksters in the queer community degenerates lol. Lmao even