Compassionate Books

When have you experienced compassion? No, a better question to ask first is what is compassion? Compassion is simply the noun version of helping others. It is what drives us as humans, as people, as individuals to not only listen to problems of others, but to try to help solve those problems. But is compassion the source or the result of helping others? Perhaps it is both, as compassion will drive a person to help and the act of helping can give a person a greater sense of compassion.

Still, a word alone is not enough to convey what compassion means, no? So, compassion is the little girl helping the elderly gentleman, compassion is the elderly woman reaching out to the young girl who cannot decide where to go in life. Compassion is the aspirations of the young being driven by the deeds of the old. Compassion is the gift of the young to reward the service of the previous generations. The boy who has a dollar and gives it to the homeless man has far more compassion than the man who walks past the homeless man and thinks “Freeloader.” Compassion is the dedication of a life to improving the lives of others.

Every person has a story, yet many Americans assume that someone down on their luck did something to do it to themselves, but rarely do Americans think about the other reasons for being out of luck and not being able to provide; a sick child who has been in and out of the hospital for years or cancer treatments for their aging parents being too expensive. Only the compassionate people have the sense to open the book and read it before passing judgment.