What is compassion? Compassion is feeling for the suffering of others, prompting one to give help. It is a feeling which can make you cry; it can make you think. I believe that we all feel compassion at some point, even the worst criminals. We know that feeling and we have that feeling when we pass by a homeless person begging for crumbs, when we hear of a young child losing its parent or vice versa.
To me this is compassion. Some could say it is pity, and in a way it might be that too. I think pity and compassion always seem to come together. It can be hard to differentiate between the two. Compassion is a state of mind and a feeling. It is possible to become a compassionate person in our actions, in our thoughts, and in our hearts.
Compassion is a very strong feeling. I feel that and I want somehow to explain that feeling which I have in my guts when I see, feel, or hear of something difficult or unjust happening to someone or something. For example, I feel empathy and compassion for victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. I don’t know any of those people personally, but I feel compassion for all of them and their families.
My husband could be one of them, but thank God he was safe; that day he was late for work. People absolutely innocent became victims of religious fanaticism. I feel compassion for Tigran’s wife, child, and all of his close relatives. We were friends from childhood.
He was a medical school student. He had a his own house, he was married, and he was happy with his wife. They were waiting for their first baby. It seemed they had everything to be happy, yet he died from heart-attack when he was twenty-seven years old. He didn’t see his own son, whom was expecting so impatiently. There is nothing more terrible than this tragedy: to pass away so young, his wife a widow, his father losing his only son, and the baby losing his father before he was born.
The Term Paper on Handling Emotions And Expressing Feelings In Relationship
I – Definition of feeling: In psychology, feeling is the perception of events within the body, closely related to emotion. The term feeling is a verbal noun denoting the action of the verb to feel, which derives etymologically from the Middle English verb felen, “to perceive by touch, by palpation.” It soon came to mean, more generally, to perceive through those senses that are not referred to any ...
That innocent boy will see his father only in pictures. I have a friend whose daughter passed away when she was nine years old. She was diagnosed with liver cancer in August 2001. The doctor said that she had two months live. They didn’t know what to do; even modern medicine could not help her. They went to the Chinese traditional doctor.
They were trying to treat her but unsuccessfully. She passed away two weeks ago. It was a big tragedy for her family. I feel very sorry for them, but how can I help them to reduce their pain? They are people who don’t need anything material but I know they need moral support, spiritual support. Compassion is a feeling, which can be spiritual and physical at the same time. I have spoken of a feeling in my guts.
To me these are both very physical feelings. Compassion can make you cry, and it can make you think. It is a very strong feeling and it can shake us awake, to push us to realize that we are not alone and that others are going through some pretty hard things too. By realizing this, we somehow feel better.
We then start feeling a responsibility towards others, to help out when we can, and sadness when we can not.
