Failure and compassion

I like Nimue Brown's blog Druid Life.  Yesterday in my post "Stoic Smugness," I complained about a coworker who thinks others are weak.  Today, Nimue writes about the same thing, but with more eloquence and sympathy.  In "Of failure and compassion," she writes, "Those places we have not been, can so readily look like weakness, shortcoming, lack of proper effort."