“What’s in your (heart’s) wallet?”

Yesterday I stumbled across a great quote by the author Jason Reynolds, “Do we sprint toward empathy, and crawl toward judgment?”

This quote begs for the implied range of completeness which is, “Do we sprint toward judgment, and crawl toward empathy?” (See what I did there?)

The takeaway is for us to consider which side of that spectrum we live on – do we sprint toward empathy or judgment? It’s a simple self-evaluation that most of us already know about ourselves – knowing which behavior we’re prone toward (empathy or judgment), then begs for what motive or driving force projects us to be empathetic or judgmental.

Most of us proclaim our motives are driven by our beliefs, characteristic traits, or morals whose teachings are aligned with sprinting toward empathy – right?

This is where it gets weird – many of us also align ourselves with political positions, social agendas, and activist groups that are far more judgmental than empathetic.

Weird – right?

It’s an exercise in moral mental calisthenics – but only one side, our beliefs or our posturing can be dominate – empathic or judgmental – in the voice of Samuel L Jackson, “What’s in your (heart’s) wallet?”