#empathy is everything

[positivelypresent]

Empathy is the key. 🗝️

[hologramcowboy]

https://www.tumblr.com/justjensenanddean/715991043160588288/jensen-ackles-new-orleans-jazz-music-festival

I’m sure you’ve already seen this gif or the actual video of Jensen at Jazz Fest when he takes off his sunglasses and shakes his head at Steve filming him.

I was reading the tags on this post, and the number of people saying “living his best life!" Or “the eyes!” I “Daddy!”and generally fawning all over his looks is baffling to me. Not that he isn’t attractive, I agree that he looks attractive in the video. However. How do you point out “his beautiful green eyes” and not see that they look incredibly sad and/or tired. They say “living his best life” and he looks completely done. He didn’t have a hint of a wink or even a smirk, he just looks serious and tired/annoyed, and like he wanted the camera out of his face.

It’s like so many people look at him in the shallowest way possible. They see the sum of his parts, but not the actual person underneath. They need him to be a happy, fun, hot, popular king, without noticing or caring if he’s actually happy. Either that, or they so desperately want him to live up tho the hype they created around him that they literally CAN’T see that he looks miserable.

We get called anti or virtue signalling for daring to point out that he doesn’t seem fulfilled, but we are people who actually care about him as a human not as their perfect sex symbol. If I truly don’t care for someone, I try to spend little time talking about them (like Misha). It’s so crazy to me how AAs or Dean stans can’t accept that neither the person nor the character are perfect. I find it so frustrating. And sad.

You have a beautiful, beautiful soul. 🧡 Uh, anons, have got to stop making me teary eyed. My mascara is quite expensive. lol

You explained it all flawlessly, it breaks my heart that people stop at the surface, if they only knew how damaging that is. Jensen is indeed drained and clearly hurting. One thing makes me happy though, there are perceptive people like you in this world so there is hope.

[heyyy-its-j]

A few months ago, I was thinking about the Pledge of Allegiance, and about how dicey it is that we’re expected from a young age to literally pledge our allegiance to a piece of cloth and the country it represents. So I created an alternative. One that focuses on humanity rather than nationality, and empathy rather than blind loyalty. I present to you, the Pledge of Compassion

I pledge my service

To my fellow humans

And to the creatures who walk this earth

To be kind and selfless

To help the helpless

To lend strength to those who are weak

And a voice to those who have been silenced

To accept that no one is perfect

And to show empathy and understanding in all things

[adirondackraven]

My Christmas Wish

Learn to hold space without ego or judgement . Allow others to unburden the pain in their heart. Let them bring those hurts into light and love. Sometimes just listening , letting them be heard , can begin the healing

[14kgoldupgraded]

Empathy isn't just something that happens to us -- a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain -- it's also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves. It's made of exertion, that dowdier cousin of impulse.

Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams