Recently, whilst scrolling through content, a quote stuck out to me: “hurt people, hurt people".

We often hear this, but we rarely understand the mechanics of it. It isn’t always a conscious effort to take from one person to the next. Often, it is simply a loop. Through their own trauma, a person may hurt another to satiate a void within themselves, causing harm purely by consequence.

As a fellow human who observes behaviour, both in others and in myself, I try to make decisions out of compassion rather than letting my wounds guide my actions. I can see that many people are simply not conscious of the damage they cause, or the heavy static they carry as they go about their lives.

It is easy to find blame. Blame is the immediate action of the ego trying to defend itself. It tries to keep the vessel "safe" and integral by pushing the discomfort onto someone else.

But if you stop defending and start looking at your own actions, you might start to see patterns of harm that you may, or may not, be feeding.