.. Our empathic telescopes are activated when we hear a single cry for help – the child drowning in the pond, the dog abandoned on an ocean. When we think of human suffering on a mass scale , our telescope does not work , because it has not been designed to work in such a situation.
Whenever I am doing something, I prefer to do it by my thoughts than feelings. Recently when I heard about Haiti’s earthquake, I just thought that the earthquake happened in Haiti. I thought, “where is Haiti?” I couldn’t imagine about their despair , their loss , their children, their hunger, their darkness, their isolation.. I couldn’t think that the people in Haiti are just like me. Sometime later, after I saw a newspaper and internet articles, I became more and more thoughtful about Haiti. A couple of weeks ago, nursing students checked people blood pressure to raise funds for Haiti. When I saw them my heart felt compassion and I went to them and participated with them . I felt some happiness. Because I did something to help. My emotional system did not work about other people’s suffering but it was a burden to me. The nursing student did something to help for Haiti and they also did to bring down my burdens.
.. Our empathic telescopes are activated when we hear a single cry for help – the child drowning in the pond, the dog abandoned on an ocean. When we think of human suffering on a mass scale , our telescope does not work , because it has not been designed to work in such a situation.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I am doing something, I prefer to do it by my thoughts than feelings. Recently when I heard about Haiti’s earthquake, I just thought that the earthquake happened in Haiti. I thought, “where is Haiti?” I couldn’t imagine about their despair , their loss , their children, their hunger, their darkness, their isolation.. I couldn’t think that the people in Haiti are just like me.
Sometime later, after I saw a newspaper and internet articles, I became more and more thoughtful about Haiti. A couple of weeks ago, nursing students checked people blood pressure to raise funds for Haiti. When I saw them my heart felt compassion and I went to them and participated with them . I felt some happiness. Because I did something to help.
My emotional system did not work about other people’s suffering but it was a burden to me. The nursing student did something to help for Haiti and they also did to bring down my burdens.