Friday, February 6, 2009

Brainstorm
What exactly is compassion? How is it defined? There are many ways to describe it and identify it. When two people love and care for each other, compassion is somewhere snuggled in between the people. If a person decides to purchase a mosquito net for raising benefits for kids in Africa that have malaria. Can compassion be explained as a comrades helping a fallen soldier, or helping anybody in need. I believe that in some societies compassion is measured differently. In East Asian countries a simple good deed can be regarded with much compassion. When I wrestled I had compassion for the sport and for the wrestlers and for the sport. I have much compassion for the beautiful game (soccer). If you have compassion for others you will receive it. I do believe that the most driven people have to have compassion to succeed in life. Compassion is in our dreams and in our thoughts, it lives in our souls weather we try to quell it or not. The world’s major religions stress love and compassion. It so the ability to share others suffering and a form of empathy. I believe that pushing the logic of compassion tot eh highest level can act as a powerful inspiration. Most people, when they see somebody who is handicapped, feel sympathetic toward the person. We should work on developing a genuine compassion for our loved ones. When we are no longer satisfied by our partners and lose that alluring sensation that we have ultimately lost compassion. We have a responsibility to show compassion when we are driving and we have to care for the other drivers as if they were loved ones. There is a difference between love and compassion and the difference is a simple attachment aspect. When a person loves you they feel compassion but they also feel a sense of sheltering and shelter. They have placed their heart in your hands and let you be in charge of how you treat it. When you love a girl you have become their security blanket, and in a way their lifeline. A source of energy that helps them through the day and makes them happy, or sad, or lonely, or excited. Love has the ability to control every emotion, even compassion. A good sense of compassion starts with love. Compassion there really can’t be true love. There is even compassion in war. A long time ago wars would be stopped and a siece fire would be called out in honor of Christmas Eve. Farmers show compassion when they do their work in the fields or sell their crops and livestock. Even animals can show compassion. There are many stories of dolphins and dogs saving people. This is a message that says if you show compassion and give compassion then you will receive it.
The world should learn compassion because it would be a much better place and there would be more understanding. If there was compassion in this world then we would not be tearing down the rainforest. We would not be dumping toxic sewage into our river, lakes, streams, and oceans. When John Smith came to Jamestown he stated that the James River was so clear that he could see to the bottom. Now the only thing that many people see is dead fish at the top. If compassion was common there would not be genocide in the Sudan, the Holocaust would have never happened. We would have never have seen the rise of the Kameir Rouge, Pol Pots dictatorship in Cambodia. There would have never been a Nicolae Ceausescu, or a Slobodan Milosevic, or a Benito Mussolini. If we had compassion we would have not gone to a war that we cannot win.

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