Ocean Vuong
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And, you know, it's wage work.
Sometimes it's hard.
People yell at him.
And he goes, it's a very stressful job.
And so I'm holding him.
And all of a sudden, it's really, I don't know why this is.
But when we hold our suffering, we suffer more.
when we hold someone else's suffering, we have compassion.
It's amazing.
Why?
I would love someone much smarter than I to figure that out.
But that's always the case.
It's very hard to continue to suffer when you're holding someone else's suffering because it's something like love starts to come out of that.
And some days I can't do it.
Some days I'm like, I just don't have enough to go there.
But just even saying that word, the phrase,
I hope the people in my community can find safety.
I'm going to work towards that.
I'm going to work towards securing their safety.
And then you start to, all of a sudden you visualize what you can do, how you can volunteer, how you can help.