Why cry out loud when you cannot help?

I have seen this many times before. Devastation strikes. People die…Children are left homeless and as orphans. Countries crumble…And everyone I meet is talking about it. They are feeling sorry for the poor souls out there. My mind just feels numb. Neither do they spur a reaction nor elicit a comment from me. I feel sorry too but deep within, I am actually glad it did not happen to me. I am overcome by guilt more than being sorry. Why feel sorry out in the open when you do nothing about it? Ah I know…because people feel better when they feel sorry for those deprived souls. Selfishness even then! And it is inadvertent. They cant help it.

From what I have seen, people who actually do something for those deprived souls never talk about it. They do not have the time to feel sorry, since they are busy helping them out. Their souls are not tortured like the rest of us who have this compulsion to let out our “feelings” for the miserable people.

Those are the people that feel the inner peace…