Why Compassion Begins With Remembering That We Are Always Choosing Every human being carries within them the full spectrum of possibility. We can think with clarity or distortion, feel with tenderness or indifference. We can act in ways that heal or ways that harm. We are never only one thing. In every moment, we are choosing (whether consciously or not) who we are and who we are becoming. Yet so often, we forget this quiet truth. We rush to label people as good or bad, heroes or villains. But life resists such neat divisions. The neighbor who cuts us off in traffic may also be the one who shows up with soup when we are sick. A leader who stumbles in one season may grow into someone who inspires in the next. We are never only what we have been. We are always what we are choosing, here and now. ...