Compassion is the ability to empathize with someone else's pain, trouble, and unhappiness. A person with compassion tends to be empathetic and delicate by nature.
Increasingly, one hears this statement: compassion is an unnecessary anachronism. Allegedly, it only prevents a person from achieving success in life, distracting him from achieving the intended goal. In the end, it's every man for himself. Someone is lucky more, someone less. And nowadays, in an era of fierce competition and eternal haste, there is simply no time and no reason to regret, to sympathize. At the same time, the famous quotation from the play "At the Bottom" by M. Gorky is sometimes cited, where it is stated that pity humiliates a person. But is it? After all, compassion is what distinguishes a person from an animal. The laws of the wild are inexorable: there is no place for a weak, sick, crippled creature, it quickly dies, becoming either the prey of predators, or the victim of its own fellows. Among animals, there are also cases of compassion, but this is the exception rather than the rule. But a normal person will not abandon someone who needs help in trouble. Moreover, he will not finish him off, taking advantage of weakness or helplessness. Simply because his human nature will not allow it. One who is capable of compassion will not commit meanness either towards other people, or even towards animals. Moreover, he will not take the criminal path. There are exceptions, of course, but extremely rare. Opposite examples - when cruel, heartless people, starting with the torture of puppies and kittens, then became the most dangerous killer-maniacs, alas, abound. It often happens that when a great grief or a whole mass of problems falls on a person, he feels deeply unhappy, it seems to him that an impenetrable "black streak" has come. In such a situation, the compassion of another person can greatly help him: warm words of sympathy or support, an offer of help. Their importance can hardly be overestimated. And, really, with all due respect to the great classic of Russian literature, there is nothing humiliating here. Imagine what a society would be like if it was made up of people devoid of compassion, unable to lend a helping hand to a person in trouble, or simply to say kind words to him. The impression is just creepy. It would hardly be comfortable to be among such subjects. Therefore, take it as an axiom that compassion is one of the most important and valuable human qualities. And try not to be indifferent to someone else's grief, troubles. After all, you are people.
