Voices of the Children
Many people wonder what the word compassion means. To me, compassion is the total lack of selfishness and ignorance to one’s surroundings. When you are compassionate you understand the situations and the feelings of the people and things around you. You are filled with an overwhelming urge to right or fix whatever may be wrong. A compassionate person believes that it is a necessity for people who have the ability to help others to do so. The simplicity of the idea is astonishing given the fact that people rarely practice it. The select few in our world that are compassionate, loving, and optimistic people go out of their way to make any situation the best it can possibly be.
There are times in a person’s life when fear and anxiety take absolute and total control and make us feel alone, hopeless, and unprotected. There are times when the world spirals out of our control and leads us down a dark and desolate path where isolation is not a figment of the imagination but a reality in which the shackles of society have taken us prisoner. A compassionate person can be like a patch of blue sky in an onslaught of a sea of thunder and lightning. When you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place its always nice to have someone there for you to help you out. The good news is that there is a little compassion in everyone. It’s as human as eating and breathing. The only hurdle that exists is that it is buried among the rubble and debris that we have consumed from our self-serve society. Whatever happened to the Three Musketeers ideology of “All for one and one for all”? Our selfishness and incentive to be the best of the best has skewed our views of how the world really is.
Our mindset has been programmed so that we only see the bad in people. The media frenzies over the death and destruction of a few lives but fails to acknowledge the millions of people that are being saved by the love and compassion of others everyday. We will all remember that dreaded day in September when so many lives were tragically lost. But will we remember always the success stories of the millions of people that were saved do to the fast acting intuition of countless soldiers, fire fighters, policemen, and even teachers? In our eagerness to see the atrocity and animosity in everyone we turn a blind eye on everything that is bright and jubilant in our lives and only pin-point our attention to that which is dark and dismal. We believe so strongly in letting people know the dangers they live in, but should it not be as equally important for the peopel to know the countless amenities and joys in life that are available to them each and every day? Should not the American people feel comfortable and safe in their own beloved country? Or should we always be in a state constant fear that something terrible and evil is lurking behind every corner? Which world would you want to live in? A world of happiness, joy and safety or world of constant fear and sorrow? The choice is ours. To take the enlightened road of love and compassion or continue down the dangerous path we are already on.