Why Compassion: Why Compassion Is Important To Me

To me, compassion is something important to avoiding anger and hate. To be compassionate is to help those that need it to carry on. To me, showing compassion means to show someone kindness without any ulterior motives. Compassion is to show someone that you care about what happens to them, and how they feel. Being compassionate is to be friendly to the people around you, rather than having an attitude. To me, Compassion is something special that can change someone's heart, and how they see the world. Compassion is a very special thing to me, and for most other people, because compassion can make wondrous things happen, and can pull someone up once they have fallen down a dark hole. I believe that Elie Wiesel was talking about compassion because

It is, without a doubt, something that every person, not only needs, but deserves. Compassion is a thing that most people need to help them get back up on their feet, and to make them feel better. Compassion could even save someone on the brink of suicide. I have shown people compassion before when they needed it, and people have shown me compassion without me doing something special for them. Saying that compassion is not a right is saying that you have to do something special to earn compassion, and that is if not horrible, then unfair. So yes, compassion is a human right. It is something humans should be able to get without having to earn it. Anyone should be able to be compassionate to someone who needs/deserves

One night me and my brother were home alone with empty stomachs and nothing in the refrigerator. My brother was nice enough to offer to buy us a pizza. We got in his car, and brought us to Little caesars, and bought a five dollar hot and ready pizza. On the way out, he noticed a man in old battered clothes asked for spare change. My brother decided to give him twelve dollars. This shows that compassion is something that is needed, and is special. Because of compassion, a man with no home had food to eat for the night. If not for compassion, that man would have went to sleep hungry, and that is no way to live. People in the present still need compassion, and it is the job of us fortunate to show compassion to those less fortunate. I used to underestimate compassion when it comes to how special and important it actually is. But over the past few weeks in school, we have studied the Holocaust, and that has shown me the true importance of compassion. Many Jewish people couldn’t do things such as use vehicles, or go to school. Many of them had to hide so they wouldn’t be sent to concentration camps, where many of them were killed. You would think that it was hopeless, but compassion lifted the spirits of the Jewish people. Being compassionate to one another filled them with hope, and made them stronger. This showed me that compassion