DK8 - Compassionate Resiliency

Compassion and resiliency are two concepts that rarely share the same stage, at least in American society.  Maybe our collective conditioning to think of ourselves as rugged individualists gives us some blind-spots to the necessity of cooperation and compassion in a functioning society, and maybe those billing themselves (not always authentically) as "compassionate" are not investing enough in personal toughness?  In my own personal experience, there's a very uncomfortable middle-space to occupy...