What Does Compassion Mean To Me By Elie Wiesel

Compassion means, to me, to always help others out of sympathy, even if they’re strangers. So in layman's term, it is to show sympathy towards another person. I consider compassion as an important trait of human beings. This is because as a human being, we are able to choose to help others or not. Compassion is also a feeling towards one another, meaning it is also a feeling. These feelings are always positive because you are helping others for a good cause. An example of compassion can be helping others that feel sad or feeling guilty. It can also be that a person you know is absolutely guilty, but you still believe he has a chance of a change. I think Elie Wiesel is talking about compassion because he wanted to show how important compassion is. He has explained that friendship becomes an anchor for a person. This means that friendship helps you keep your sanity and encourages you to help others. Helping others helps them to have an improved personality of wisdom to not hurt others or to cause pain towards another person. Also, Elie Wiesel is considered a pacifist, meaning that he is truly peaceful and does not harm anyone or anything. He wants to show that people can solve problems without the idea of violence. In order to do this, people must learn from their past and their mistakes. This is so people won’t …show more content…
Before I left a dragon dancing group because I was very busy, I was a tail of a yellow dragon. We started only a couple of weeks ago during the time, so we weren’t that good or professional. The reason why we did dragon dancing is to earn money for donation to others. One donation is based upon the rural villages in Central Vietnam. The villages in Central Vietnam are developing, meaning they are in a poor environment. So most of the money is helping people in villages to earn money to buy things. Example of items they can buy is food and tools, even though they live far from the