Analysis Of Neighbor Reading By Kierkegaard

I believe that you can’t fully understand something until you’ve lived it or experienced it. Before applying what I’ve learned about in Levinas and Kierkegaard articles to my service learning experience I never fully understood my responsibility to others or who was I responsible to. In this experience what was really incredible for me is how much responsibility we have to our “neighbor” on where Kierkegaard talks about who is our neighbor and why he is so important in our life. Kierkegaard said “to love yourself in the right way and to love the neighbor correspond perfectly to one another; fundamentally they are one and the same thing” (pg22) what makes me agree with Kierkegaard is that loving yourself is the same thing as loving your neighbor …show more content…
Every day that I would go to the hospital I aimed to the extent that It doesn’t matter how bad they treat me I will not break my responsibility to them because in a sense I obviously wouldn’t be helping them at all by treating them horrible, but I would also make them feel worse than how they are already. By making them feel bad I would just continuously think that I messed up that day and that I can’t change the fact that I didn’t do my job so it makes me feel bad about myself. Caring about others is more important than what you might think. To me caring about others is very important because what’s the point on living if you don’t care about anybody? This is the beauty of life. In my experiences caring about others made my life happier than ever, I even have a proof about this because there was this day that I was being really nice to everybody in the hospital yet it was a very busy day were I couldn’t eat until the day ended and this nice lady gave me a chick Fila sandwich just for being nice and because she bought one too many even if Levinas said that I shouldn’t expect anything in return this encouraged me to continue being a responsible, and good