Compassion

Over the weekend, I read an obituary in the local paper regarding a woman from Mississippi who had died in a house fire along with her two dogs. I felt myself feeling some of the same emotions that I felt when the same happened to Anna and her Pug, Tadpole. I know her family, friends, and her husband were devastated by this. There's just something so traumatic about a house fire and having suddenly lost someone that you just saw the day before. I cannot even describe the feeling. I felt such compassion for those she left behind.