"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings."
Joanna Macy
50 comments:
Mr. Kay,
"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with." When you have compassion for something or someone, you feel for it/them, and if something happens then you suffer with it/them. "Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because its uncomfortable." I feel that when people show there compassion, they show there loving and caring side that most people don't know about. When you are showing your compassion for someone or something, you tend to be alone or with people who you know very well or have a relationship with. "And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings." By avoiding showing compassion, your holding in all of your feelings and all of your stress. By holding in to much and never letting it out, you start to get numb and eventually you will do that for the most part of your life.
Danielle Turner
"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings."
Joanna Macy
This quote is true, for the most part. I disagree that everyone tends to avoid it. Mainly because i'm not everyone, and I don't avoid it. Although there are people who try to avoid their pain for the world and other people. In fact there are probably billions of people who do. I'm just not one of them. My grandma is one of those people who tries to avoid it. I know this because if you mention anything that has to do with the world that's "bad news" she tries to change the subject almost instantly. I believe compassion isn't something you can necessarily avoid entirely because if you go to a funeral and you hear/ see someone crying you can't help but feel for them. I know if I see someone crying I start crying too even if I don't want to. Compassion is unavoidable no matter what you do.
James Richardson
5th hour
This quote is very true in the fact that a lot of people try to avoid compassion. Like this quote explains, it is awkward and uncomfortable and many people can not cope with that. This choice to avoid uncomfortable situations makes it so that you can't experience the things in life that will make you understand others. You also will not know what it feels like to take the hit for someone if you don't allow compassion in your life. I am just as guilty of this as everyone else. Myself, along with other people are too afraid to get our hands wet and are depriving ourselves of necessary life experiences. Overall, Joanna MArcy explains this situation very well.
I think that this qoute means to have compassion you have to have a few other key factors. Everyone is capable of compassion. You just have to beable to 'feel and sufer with". this means that you have to beable to love and hate this. People have a hard time doing this because they have trouble expressing their feelings. It may feel odd to them to have compassoin with another thing. They don't want to be able to feel something if that other person sets how themood that they are in. People have to beable to share feeling to have compassion.
Chris Reid
6th hour
5th
I think the first part of the quote means that compassion is the ability to feel for others pain and discomfort. It goes on to say that everyone is capable of compassion, but many are too uncomfortable to be compassionate. I think that sometimes people try to avoid compassion. Many times when I don't know someone I am less inclined to show compassion towards them, because it is uncomfortable and unusual to show compassion towards that person. However, for the most part, people are pretty compassionate. For example, one someone dies, people feel for the loved one's who were close to that person, even if they were not close to the person. The last part of this quote says that avoiding compassion leads to "psychic numbing", or the resistance to have empathy for the pain of others. When you resist compassion, you become unaware of others pain and therefor cannot help a friend or family member with their suffering. I don't think that people should resist compassion because compassion allows us to build a good relationship with someone and it teaches how to help someone when they are suffering or in pain.
We all have the desire to make a person's pain go away. At times we are not able to help that person, so we tend to ignore it. It's not that we don't care, we just feel helpless and sometimes the only way we can deal with it is avoid it. I would hope that when a person is in distress & you have the capability of helping that person you do so. Compassion is a human emotion that makes us caring individuals. Avoiding these feelings of compassion can make you have guilty feelings & your thoughts are consumed of that other persons suffering. So with that said, I don't think we try to avoid being compassionate, we just don't know how to handle it.
I think this quote means that if something bad is happing to sombody you try to avoid it. You try to avoid it because it is so sad because they are suffering. For example if somebody is sick that has cancer and they are feeling sad then you try to avoid them because you don't want to start feeling sad. If you go and see them you might suffer because they are going through a hard time. When you avoid someone you don't know what to say to them to make them better. So that would make you stress out because you keep avoiding them. I think the quote is saying that avoiding someone or not they both go through hard times.
Katherine Walsh
6th hour
"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with." When you have compassion for someone or soemthing you care about it. And if something happens your right there with them.
"Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable." When someone is showing compassion they show there loveing and caring side that doesnt really come out infront of most people. When you show compassion for someone or soemthing you tend to keep it to your self, unless its obvious.
"And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings." I think this means that your holding your feelings inside. And not telling anyone. By not telling people you start to get numb. Meaning you get all depressed and cant handle much more.
John Kent
5th Hour
In our world we don’t show enough compassion because it is considered a “female” emotion. For men they don’t want to be identified as emotional like a female. For example, people wonder why George looks out for Lennie. They don’t seem to understand that George is compassionate. He knows Lennie needs someone to guide him though life. Since Lennie’s Aunt Clara died, George is all Lennie has. When Slim said, “Funny how you an’ him string a long together.” “Oh, I dunno. Hardly none of the guys ever travel together.” It seams that Slim is implying that Gorge and Lennie are a couple. This is only because if it were okay to be compassionate more of the farmhands would stick together. Since it is no okay the live a lonely existence.
Mr.Kay,
Compassion is a big word, with even bigger effects. When we show compassion towards people we show them more then we care. It's like telling someone that their not alone and someone else has been there before. it is very true that people avoid it, i think they feel uncomfortable becasue their not used to it. When someone we love is going through something the easiest way to show them we care is through compassion. But when we don't let people know we care the next time someone gets hurt their not going to show compassion towards them. Then leading to people never show compassion, people never bothering.
brittney Cooper
6th hour
The beginning of this quote says that compassion is the ability to feel or have empathy for an individual. Then it goes on to say that everyone tends to avoid compassion because it is uncomfortable. Sometimes it is hard to show compassion to someone that you hardly know, therefore making it very awkward or uncomfortable. Than avoiding compassion towards someone produces psychic numbing. So avoiding compassion towards someone can than make you feel worse or more uncomfortable. In my opinion i think it is better to show compassion to someone rather than avoiding it. By doing this, it makes you feel better about yourself, it will help you form a better realtionship with that person.
Clare Pathe
Mr. Kay,
This quote is generally a statement so it makes sense without confusion. The first sentence, "Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with," is pretty much just a definition. I guess beyond that, it means suffering with someone/something and learning to deal with them shows true compassion. I defiantly can agree that many try to avoid it. I am not sure if everyone does, but most of us do. It might be to hard on one that they can't stand doing that for another. Some people are just jerks. Also, one might not actually have the time or ability to help another person. But if a person avoids compassion to much, psychic numbing will occur. This just brings your resistance to an over exaggerated amount to the point that one might not have any care for anything. Just loosing their empathy completely. Nobody wants to just lose care with everything. Then there is no love or like, making your life very feeling less. This is how I come to
think about this quote.
Luke LaFountain
5th Hour
Everyone has compassion for someone in there lives. Whether its a family member a good friend or even a pet. When you have compassion towards someone it is very hard for you to let go of them. For instance about two years ago I had to say goodbye to one of my greatest friends ever. His name was Bently a black lab that I grew up with since I was a young boy. He was getting old and his health was also getting worse. My dad kept telling me that we had to think about putting him down but I just shrugged and tried not to think about it. One late Friday night I had just came home from a track meet are 8th grade year when my dog Bently had trouble breathing so we had to take him to the vet and put him to sleep. I didn't want my dog Bently to go, it was then when I realized that I was being selfish. He was sick and would be better off if he was put down. If we avoid friendship just because it is hard to let go no one would have friends. I agree that it is hard to let go of someone you love and care for but if you frown on that forever you will waste the only life you live.
Taylor Wattles
5th
"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with."
When my friend is upset, I normally feel for him, and become upset as well. My friends moods affect mine, and their happiness is my happiness. Their pain is my pain.
"Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable."
I know that everyone is able to feel for one another. But the reason they tend to stray from it is to avoid getting involved. Some of the time, people will deny their compassionate feelings and replace them with an uncaring air.
"And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings."
Eventually, people will lose their ability to 'feel' and 'care', and become social zombies. They hear and see everything going on around them, but they do not take the time or effort to intervene.
Steffeny Apollo
5th hour
Compassion is something that America needs right now. Many people in our government are selfish. They don't care about "the people." All they care about is weather or not there ass is covered. They take out billions of dollars in bonuses. They do not have compassion for the American people because they think they are better than the average American. In school I think that we need to have more compassion towards others so we can prevent things like suicide. It really bothers me when people are made fun of for being compassionate because it is not a normal thing in our lives.
~Big Red
6th
"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings."
Joanna Macy
I think this quote is expressing that many of us tend to avoid to show pain. The quote says that it is because we are uncomfortable. yes i believe that i think were uncomfortable because we dont want to be seen as weak. I think many people are so proud that they wont show pain, because in theory pain means your weak. i believe we need to show compassion and find comfort in one another, no matter how bad it hurts your pride. it impossible to make it through life with out help, people just need to stop being so proud. after all misery loves company.
I feel that most people don't show compassion not just because their uncomfortable with it, but because they're afraid of looking vulnerable. As for looking vulnerable, people feel that if they were to show their true compassion it's just another way for getting hurt. When they are vulnerable, it's a open invitation to getting hurt, but it's up to you not to let that happen. I don't think it's god to resist compassion like how this quote says. If you are feeling something you should express your compassion. If you keep what your feeling bottled up, it'll only get worse, or pain, just like in this quote. Another reason is, when sharing compassion, it gives you the ability to create relationships with other people. You never know what someone could be like until you show them the real you.
Alanna Nagi
6th hour
this quote means that you feel for others people suffering and pain is to be compassion. buy msny people choose not to be compassionate because it causes feelings you dont want to have. a lot of people hear about death they feel like they need to feel something towards that person, even if they never new the person, thats showing compassion. no one should keep all their feelings in, that could lead to all the pain it says in the quote. the "psychic numbing" i really dont no how to explain this, maybe it means that you resist to help someone you actually love, you just dont no what to do. and if you dnt tell them anything out of compassion, that could cause self numbness.
i think that everyone should atleast show compassion, so its healthy like so you dont keep all your feelings with yourself, everybody some self expression.
I think its talking about people avoid it because they don't want to embrace it. Pain isn't some thing easy to deal with. It can be physical or emotional. People would prefer to avoid it so they can go do what ever they need to with out feeling it. So it doesn't get in their way or drag them down. People do this to much and eventually it catches up with them. Often with emotional pain then physical.
kevin anderson
6th hour
Compassion can be shown with the smallest amount of effort, but it can mean so much. Just hugging someone whose crying, or talking to someone who is going through hradship can really make a difference. Even though itsso easy to do, people do avoid it. Its understandable why it can be uncomfortable, on the other hand their should be some kind of presense of mind to comfort ones who need compassion most. Showing compassion can even mean just crying with someone, better yet, your helping them cry. Its like your taking some of the pain off their shoulders and putting it on yours. If more people in the world were compassionate, who knows what could happen. Its fullfilling to know that you can be leaned on when someones in a time of need.
arts beats and deets
I feel that people show their compassion in different ways. Some people show their compassion by laughing. I used to know this little girl who used to laugh at the starving kids in Africa. I asked her why she was laughing, she told me that she felt bad for them. I show my compassion by hiding the problem. I really don't like to show my emotions. I think that it makes me a weaker person. I don't want to show people that I am vornable. I think that weakness is a form of failure. Failure right now is not an option for me. I cant stand failure.
The first line in the qoute is defintly true. It is saying if you compare with something then what ever happens to them you feel. Agian, everyone is capable but it depends on how they look and act on it. Everyone tends to avoid it is just saying no one likes to have comparison because as i already said, what they feel you feel so if it's something bad then you are pretty much screwed. When you avoid it you are laso going to feel pain so really there isn't a point in avoiding it. I think this also goes bask to loneliness because of the factor that if you don't have compassion because you don't care then you are going to be lonely. Last always try to find a compassion with everyone you meet because i think that it will help you in your life time.
Ty Bouwens, 6th hour
Mr. Kay,
"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings."
The first statement in this quote is 100% true. When we are compassionate, you cant really say that you feel what that other person feels. The only thing you can do is try and help that person feel better. When we avoid being compasionate, you start to deny stuff that is going around in your world. You would like to think that the world is peaceful and nothing is wrong. But when you start to deny compassion and then you start to lose touch with the world around you.
Tim wilson
as humans we experience a lot of things that impact us. some of it is joy and some of it is pain. we suffer from a lot of things like a death or loss. when we are in pain others usually try to comfort us and sometimes the only way is to feel compassion. they try to put themselves in our shoes and understand what we are going through. sometimes people have a hard time helping others cope because they feel akward and out of place trying to help them. we try to just ignore the pain and forget about it. we are just covering it up thinking it will never show through but it will always be down there.
Compassion is having empathy for others when they are suffering and showing you care. It is true that everyone is capable of being compassionite, but I would say that most of us tend to avoid it. Many of us do because it feels weird to show someone you may not be very close with compassion. You have to step out of your comfort zone to show another person compassion, and that can be difficult. If we avoid being compassionite, though, we could very well become numb to when someone is in need of compassion. Or, we may realize that someone needs compassion, but we might not neccessarily know how to show them it. This is why even if we feel awkward showing compassion, it is still needed. When you are in need of compassion, you would hope that another person would step out of their comfort zone to feel your pain. The same way, you should try to do just that for others. For example, I almost never cry in public, but I cried once this year in the hallway. A random girl I had never met came up to me and asked me if I was alright. She gave me a hug and said she hated to see people cry. I have never seen her after that day, but her compassion is still in my mind. I want to be the person who helps someone feel better when they are suffering, just as she did for me.
Kaleigh Swanson
5th hour
This quote sounds fairly true to a point. I do also think the majority of people try to avoid compassion as well. No one realy likes to suffer so thats why most avoid it. I think churches and groups like that are willing to share your compassion. They always want to be there for you. The psychic numbing from avoidance can be painfull but you need to overcome it or just get used to it. It realy just depends on what someone is compassionet for.
Compassion is exctly how it is decribed above. It is the feelings you get when one you are with is acted on a way you either feel bad for of somesort or what ever your feeling is. Such as if you were to be with a friend and you that person stubed their toe. If you were a person with compassion you would act on this action as feeling bad for the person. Another way to desrcibe compassion is if you are able to put your self in the other persons shoes and now doing so feel bad, you are a person with compasiion.
The other part of the quote means that internally if you do not show compassions to ones actions, the numbing process will take place. causeing you to numb up mentally. This will then cause yourself to make a someone similar mistake, making yourself regret not having effection or compasiion torward the other.
conman
Everyone experiences compassion at some point wiether you know it or not. It often happens when you can relate to someone. You end up wanting to help that person in any way you can. It's always easier to avoid pain then to deal with it. It's so much easier to put on a fake smile and pretend like everythings okay. People don't want to feel weak or have someones pity. However, there will always be those drama people who want the attention on them and will purposly show that they are in pain for people's sympothy. It is true though that you should deal with the stuff that's going on because all the things that you are upset about will just build up. With all the stuff that builds up you relize that you just don't care anymore. Even if another thing bad happens you find that it just doesn't matter and for some reason it doesn't seem to phase you. It all just seems to blend in.
Kristen Pauly
6th hr.
"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings."
Joanna Macy
I also believe that everyone is capable of campassion. People tend to aviod it because they don't want to feel akward and uncomfortable. By avoiding compassion poeple also feel pain. So it doesn't really make any sense to aviod it. Either way you feel pain and you are uncomfortable. They only way that you don't feel uncomfortable is if you found your sole mate. That way you can be as happy as ever and share the same feelsings. Instead of fighting on every thing you do.
ZAck Ruffin
I think this quote is true because everyone is capable of compassion. Everyone is capable of compassion, but not everyone tries to avoid it. Some people accept things the way they are and most of the time tend to feel bad for the misfortune. But then there is always the odd duck in the group who tries to fight the natural feeling of compassion because of it being uncomfortable. Avoiding compassion doesn't necessarily cause numbing, but it causes you to miss out on feeling sad for someone else's misfortune. I find it odd that people would try to avoid compassion. It seems like it would be pretty hard to avoid unless your just a cold person, When something bad happens to someone, you either feel bad for them or you don't. You can't be like halfway in between or have mixed feelings.
Cody Kabisa
5th hour
I feel that this quote is refiering to the tendency of people not letting them selve get close with another human been. When people try and get compassionate then they sometimes bring false hope into someones elses life. They don't know when to let go so they just leave. People suffer when they can't find someone to confort them in a sad or terrifying situation. People tend to aviod showing compassion because they don't know what to do if the person they are helping becomes emossionly attached, and cause them more physical and mental pain. You shouldn't let this scare you because if you are willing to help someone then you must have some sort of feelings towards them as well. Just deal with it and get on with your life.
John McLean
6th hour
"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings."
Compassion is something that someone trys to find all the time. Although when we find it, it is something we may avoid because we are afraid to get close. People have a disease, we tend to look away from close relationships. We are afraid of the worst. I think that someone can have compassion for anyone, a friend, a girlfriend, a boyfriend (if you like that like tim), or a sibling. Compassion for one another makes us all stronger. Someone lacking compassion is someone who is lacking a companion and a feeling for another.
I can relate to this quote because i see people try to avoid the feeling of compassion all the time. People worry about what others will think of them to much to be compassionate. Every has the ability but they choose not to because their scared. Scared that they wont react right to the feeling or the other person will judge them because of it. You will miss out on so much in life if you don't be compassionate. You will need to be campassionate with your wife/husband and kids, and also your grandkids. You can help and change the life of others when you are compassionate. People just have to open up and be compassionate because it is a great feeling.
Blanzy 6th
the quote is true, many people avoid compassion because it can be uncomfortable and very weird. most people can't deal with that type of thing.. Avoiding compassion is easy to do, but if you do choose to avoid it you will understand less in life when it comes to friends and family, because if you don't have compassion then your not going to do a very good job standing up for them ever. I don't really avoid compassion when it comes to certain people, but I am afraid to have compassion for too many..... there for my compassion runs for about 3 people.
Kymmie Brownson
6th
On a lighter note I will not copy-paste the poem just to make my blog seem much larger than it actually is. Instead I will be doing a introductory statement to do that.
I imagined this being said out loud and all I could think of is "WHOA-WHAO-WHOA, you lost me at the 2nd part." Overall compassion can be understood by all/most of every living creature possible. Dogs, cats(suck), ect, ect.. In the end humanity is a very social race, the scariest thing you can do to a human is solitary confinement. A person suffers loneliness for great periods of time and here we are with someone worst off than post-traumatic stress disorder. Their mind practically tears itself apart for entrainment. to that extent a similar experience is being taught by Ms. Perry.
Derek Guckian
5th hour
I am a firm believer in this quote because it is true. People don't act compassionate towards others because they don't want the extra pressure. They are too afraid of getting hurt themselves, like it says uncomfortable. People are too self-centered and only care about themselves. It relates to the idea of not empathizing. We don't life from another person's perspective. It only hurts the world because people interact less and less with each other. This applies to society so much today because poeple get too caught up in their work and they forget about other important things. In society, humans are more compassionate towards work than they are people. I really don't agree with this because people are always in need of someone more. People will need help and if the are there it shows a huge amount of compassion.
William Schwartz
6th hr
Taylor Dieck
6th hr.
This quote means to me avoiding pain. When you don't care or have compassion you avoid any feeling of compassion. People think when you don't have compassion you don't care. Sometimes however people try to not care to avoid being hurt. In life I think that people are not being cold when they try not to get attached, I think they just want to avoid any emotional pain in might cause. It's easier to just walk away from something or just to let go when you don't have any feelings for it. I can't imagine losing anyone of my family members or friends, because I have compassion for them. Having compassion for them and then losing them is very devistating and not an easy thing to do.
Everyone is capable of compassion. You just have to be able to 'feel and suffer with things". Compassion is the ability to feel for others pain and discomfort. It goes on to say that everyone is capable of compassion, but many are too uncomfortable to be compassionate. I do think that a lot of people try to avoid compassion. Sometimes it can be hard to show compassion to someone that you hardly know, therefore making it very awkward or uncomfortable to talk to them. I tend to avoid compassion some times to. Just like when i meet new people. its kind of hard.
Everyone has compassion in them. But a lot of people are to afraid to show it. The stereotype is that a lot of guys are to afraid to show their feelings, but i know a lot of girls who are too. Most of them think that way because is uncomfortable. They think that their too cool to show compassion for others. Being able to show compassion is a big thing to learn. And if you never learn to show compassion a lot of people wont be able to see the real you. And you also will deprive yourself of life experiences.
Hannah Aittama
5th Hour
Some people have compassion, but most dont. Most people dont wanna suffer, so they makesure they are in positions that they dont suffer. I think when you married, you develop lots of compassion. If your spouse suffers, you suffer too. I think relationships today have little compassion. Its like everyone cares for themself, and only themself. Its like we are all numb, because we dont experience feelings like we should with others. People block them out, and act as if its not happening. The world needs to have more compassion and care for one another more.
amy urbanik
5th hour
Yep, I agree with this quote i have had experience and see it every day, even if you don't want it to be true. Alot of people like to stay out of other peoples problems beacause it is depressing and make you feel bad for someone. Like it or not i do this too at school and at home, staying out of other peoples lifes make mine easyer. Some times what i dont know is what is better for me, but not anyother person, people need to be able to talk to other people to get emoations out. Without people to listen to others many more people would be angey or depressed. To really get to know someone you must have compassion and feel what they are feeling and step into their shoes. By resistance of compassion we as people are becoming less huamn like and more robobot like, just going though the every day steps and not thinking. Everyone should have compassion, with more of it the world would be a much better place to live.
SHaun Gerber
To me compassion is having the will or feelings for someone or something. When you have compassion for something, you want to do it really bad such as playing a sport. When you show compassion for someone, you show sympathy for them. Everyone is capable of showing compassion and sometimes people have a hard time doing it. People have a hard time expressing their feelings and then they cant show any compassion. When other people resist showing compassion it really does hurt everybody even yourself. To me it seems that people just dont know how to show compassion and feel good about doing it.
Troy Wojichowski 5th hr
Comapssion is sort of like putting yourself in someone elses shoes. Everyone feels some sort of compassion in their life, whether if its for a friend or stranger. People avoid compassion because they only care for themselves sometimes. It's much easier to feel sorry for yourself rather than someone else. If you don't feel compassion it is hard to see how people actually are on the inside. Compassion helps you to expand and get to know people. I think that compassion is why so many people were concerned and sad during 9/11. They felt for the victims and that helped us grow as a country.
Megan Fraser
5th hour
Compassion is a hard thing to have but its very important. It goes along with putting yourself in their shoes and imagining how they would feel. I am pretty good at that and show compassion a lot. Sometimes it is really hard to have compassion for someone you don't like though or someone who has different beliefs than you. I guess that goes along with the idea of feeling compassion and it being uncomfortable. When you don't know someone it can be kind of weird like at challenge day. You are hugging people you don't even know and sharing private stuff with them. So some people decide not to show compassion and thats not very good because then they become desensitized to the rest of the world and don't care about how other people are feeling. Compassion is important to have because there are people dying every day of hunger and poverty and illnesses and people don't even care. If we could feel their pain then we would find a way to help them. Thats what compassion is for.
over the years, to me, i have seen many great people come and go. and of those people, the ones who where the greatest, at the top, had compassion. now. my now deceased grandparents were on the top of the ladder for compassion. and, just like everything, the good go to soon. But, as they make me travel down memory lane now, i could name story after tory showing the compassion they gave. i think the best thing my grandma jane ever did though, was waiting for me to be born before she was to go have surgery. now, i wouldn't have known it at the time, but now, and forever to me, will that be the single greatest thing someone who was not directly my parents could have done. because she "wanted to see her favorite grandchild to be born". I'm sorry, i cant go on, im sorry, i really cant. i just, can't.
(a lot of reverence here...)
nick visger
compassion to me means to feel about something in a deep way. when someone is compassionate towards somebody or something it is a sense of familiarity security and safety. but when a person is afraid to open up and trust someone that is the uncomfortable feeling that you were talking about. i think that the reason people experience other peoples pain, is because they experienced a similar situation.
"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings."
Joanna Macy
When you see your friend has hard time for financial, physical, or other personal reasons, you feel sympathy, in other word, compassion. It's so natural that the compassion burdens you and even hurts you since it's what compassion, feeling with, suffering with, is. However it's unevitable to see your friends, family suffering since it's life. Always up and down. Anyhow, when someone gets a traumatic shock for his best friends' or his family's tragedy, he'll get to refuse to see any more of them. For that kind of reasons, these days drugs, which release your stress temporalily, are widely spread in this world. Anyway, here's the question we're confronting with. Should we avoid, and ignore our people's sadness for it's affect on us? I'd say no. The more you get hurt, the more you grow up. It's an aphorism someday I heard, and I believe it's true.
"Compasion litteraly means to feel with, to suffer with." Everyone has and needs compasion. It makes people feel better. When you have compasion for someone, when they get hurt you fell what they feel. If they are sad then you are sad. Sometimes people do try to avoid compassion. Maybe its not always a good thing. When you show compasion its the love and care that you give to other people. When you avoid showing the love and care your holdng it all in and you just feel like you want to explode.
Katlyn Twigg6th Hour
When some one is compassionat to someone they tend to avoid them of share there compassion for eachother things tend to go wrong between two alike. When you avoid one another you tend to get brocken hearted and very depressed. For example, take me. Me and hailey have our moments. Shes is tipically mean to me alot so it gets me down and depressed and emotionally sick. I feel like shit all the time and feel like just giving up. But i just cant. Some thing about me just wont let go of her. We both want to be together but her being on her medican doesnt help.
Hey Mr. Kay sorry my blog is late my computer had a bad virous and was getting de bug afied lol
For the most part I think that this quote is true. I dont really think that everyone tries to avoid compassion. I think of compassion as being sweet and caring. It can sometimes be uncomfortable, but in the end it makes people feel better. I agree with that part that says "resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings." I think that by people always helping us it makes us less able to handle bad news.
Samantha Casteel
5th hour
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