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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”  - Dalai Lama                                                                                                                      

Society now is so focused on having knowledge and getting a good education, especially in the Western world. It is a necessity to be able to work and make money, and since education most often leads to a better career, it is seen as a necessity as well. Love I think is also a necessity for humans, but schools are always fixed on giving students more "knowledge" rather than how people should interact with others. Does this make compassion and affection less of a necessity? Why is it that having loads of factual knowledge is put higher up than caring for each other?

A lack of compassion is a large problem for children and adults. As a learning environment that kids spend half their time in, schools should also be a place of compassion. This especially includes teachers and staff who have more power over what can happen in school. In the bullying stories on tv, the schools did very little to help the bullied students. So, how can kids show compassion, if the adults are even showing compassion?

Our world is made up of not individuals, but communities. We were made to care for each other, and that means being there beside someone for not only the success and happy moments, but also for the times of suffering. Compassion means to be understanding of someone's misery and wanting to act in some way to fix it. However, many times, people are not only not caring of other's feelings, they are causing the suffering. It is easy to shut everyone else out and be cruel, but it takes strength to be compassionate and to be vulnerable and let others to be compassionate towards you.

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MC