Or, as the concept translated as lovingkindness (Maitrī or mettā) in Buddhist and Vedic thought suggests, developing an underlying love and benevolence toward all people, even the ones who are opposed to you. It's not passivity, though, but a sincere motivation for all people to be happy and free from suffering. These are easy things to extend to other people, whose lives you may not know as completely as your own, even if you're on their access list and see the protected posts about things less Insta-worthy than public consumption receives. And because being outside a thing can give perspective that being inside it does not. (After all, that's what agony aunts and Am I The Asshole are for.) To extend the same love and compassion that you would give to others to yourself, who you know intimately well about all the things and the perceived reasons why, well, there's a reason that therapists will always be with us. For a lot of people, it's hard and it requires us to push back on messages that are so ubiquitous in culture that they might as well be water or air.

This!!!!

Also, I have only seen the first season on Steven Universe (but I don't think I have it in me to continue on). Anyway, all of my closest IRL friends are obsessed with it and speak fondly of it often, and this discussion of Rose/Pink was so well explained that I think I finally understand what they keep talking about.