How Do We Respond to a Situation of Suffering?

The poet Mary Oliver expressed this really beautifully in a poem called Beyond the Snow Belt. She said, except as we have loved, all news arrives as from a distant land. And I think that really captures why the apathy can be so strong. So as an experiment, watch your mind the next time you approach a situation of suffering. Just to notice,. what does the mind do? It might be some pain in the body. Do we open to it? Do we welcome it? DoWe pull back from it? Dowe give it sidelong glances? We can watch our response to emotional distress. You know, maybe different emotions or mind states of discontent or fear, unworthiness