The Acceptance of Life and our Human Heart As a freshman in college, I am composing and reading a variety of essays with many important, creative ideas flowing through my mind everyday. In this case, I was flipping through pages of essays and trying to think of a great synthesis point to write about. Eventually I found three essays that sparked my interest with a creative synthesis idea. In “Joyas Voladores” by Brian Doyle, “My Periodic Table” by Oliver Sacks, and “On Compassion” by Barbara Lazear Ascher, the authors write about accepting the reality of our lives, in perspective to spreading awareness in our hearts is important. In my mind I wonder what captures the reality of a human heart? How do we cope with the acceptance of our lives?
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In the beginning of this story, Ascher encountered an incident on Ninety-first street of seeing a homeless man standing inside the French Bread shop. A French woman working wasn’t in the brightest mood simply asks what food the homeless man wants and gives him food out of pity. For this reason, Ascher wonders Is it out of compassion or fear that compelled this french woman to feed the homeless man: “Pity? Care? Compassion? Or does she want to rid her shop of troublesome presence, If explusion were her motivation she would not reward his arrival with gifts of food.”(41) Evidently, having a compassionate heart isn’t easy. There are people who learn by going with their daily lives and compassion that simply grows within their heart over time. There’s people in the world who care deeply about spreading kindess everyday and makeing a difference for struggled individuals, even if its giving a homeless food, or money, it does make a difference in hearts: “Compassion is not a character trait like a sunny disposition.” (42). Ascher connects with the meaning that we may spread kindness and compassion without fully recognizing. Evidently, the little things we do makes a difference in our daily lives, our human hearts by accepting that we all go through difficulties at some point in our life: “There, but for the grace of God, go I.”
In the beginning of this story, Ascher encountered an incident on Ninety-first street of seeing a homeless man standing inside the French Bread shop. A French woman working wasn’t in the brightest mood simply asks what food the homeless man wants and gives him food out of pity. For this reason, Ascher wonders Is it out of compassion or fear that compelled this french woman to feed the homeless man: “Pity? Care? Compassion? Or does she want to rid her shop of troublesome presence, If explusion were her motivation she would not reward his arrival with gifts of food.”(41) Evidently, having a compassionate heart isn’t easy. There are people who learn by going with their daily lives and compassion that simply grows within their heart over time. There’s people in the world who care deeply about spreading kindess everyday and makeing a difference for struggled individuals, even if its giving a homeless food, or money, it does make a difference in hearts: “Compassion is not a character trait like a sunny disposition.” (42). Ascher connects with the meaning that we may spread kindness and compassion without fully recognizing. Evidently, the little things we do makes a difference in our daily lives, our human hearts by accepting that we all go through difficulties at some point in our life: “There, but for the grace of God, go I.”