Compassion and self pity hold one hand and slap each other with the other. Like conjoined twins unable to escape the truth of a shared kidney and an all too small heart but riding the nauseating waves of the world wide web in search of the elusive surgery that will finally allow them to get dining chairs opposite from each other.

It is incredibly easy to give in to both because ultimatly each is an excuse to feel the same thing. Compassion lets you feel love and feel good about it and self pity makes you feel like splitting your head open but generally over the love and loss of something.