BY YUANBO
At the Advanced Vocabulary class today, my vocabulary teacher asked us an interesting question whether true contentment comes with empathy. Some people did not agree and said that no matter how content you feel with your life, empathy will never come if you do not have. The others agreed this idea. For my perspective, empathy is born with people, which like a gift stored in the inner place of your heart.
Admittedly, contentment may be causes of people showed empathy, for those people who have nothing to worried about, so they begin to become empathy when they get a long with other people. Just like many of rich people, they spend a lot of time and too much money to help those unlucky people. However, we can also find many misers in the history and around us, who never put them money to help others but feel content when they accumulate a huge amount of money, such as famous Grandet and Uncle Basil (from the Encounter).
Firstly, when we see some bad things or someone get terrible disease, we will feel sad for them and want to help them, not matter what our life are. I think this is empathy, which sometimes is covered by hard life and which sometimes is showed like sunshine. Secondly, I hold that even the most callous people will sympathy and help the others. We could find it in many movies that showed a heartless person, who was killer or soldier, went to somewhere to do a mission but be hurt or something. He was helped by a poor girl who got into trouble because help him. So he felt he should help her. This is a stereotyped story, but it showed every one has empathy even they feel no content any more.
So I believe that empathy is hiding in every human’s heart and soul, but the point is that we should looking into our inside and find the empathy out.
I’ve hold your opinion that empathy is existted when people bron，and we should try to find out it。You've used some grogeous vocabularies to make the article brilliant.But I still think the arcticle is hard to understand because I'm not realize what's the word ‘empathy’ respected.I guessed that empathy is one’s feeling infectted by other person's feeling.I also can't understand the relation between true contentment and empathy。Can you explain it more specific？
ReplyDeleteby Simon Jiang
Your article is very interesting. It was a little bit difficult for me to understand but I enjoyed your article. In my opinion,empathy often comes to me. If I find people who gather money for poor people on the street, I may be stop to donate a few money. And then, I can feel happy to help for someone else. So, i agree with this idea.
Deleteby marina moto
I agree a half and disagree a half. In Taiwan,I have heard that the people who do not have leg or arm beg money on the sidewalk or night market. The people look like unlucky people. I think that if everyone look at those people, everyone will help them. Actually, there is a group or company that gather a lot of homeless,poor people,and beggar to help them make a lot of money which can buy a couple houses. The group use less money to raised those people, and the group punched those people ,so they only did everything what the group want. In my opinion,most people have empathy, but only fewer people think money is more imporant than empathy. I usually help them Before I heard that. Since I heard that,soI am afraid that maybe I will help other people who control this group.
ReplyDeleteby Chih Hao Wu
Firstly, I am very gland that we chosed the same elective class. Secondly, I have some different idea of empathy. I learned that if you want to show you empathy to someone, you must have the same feeling or similar experience as the person. But if you don't have the same feeling or have the same experience, you only can treat somebody with sympathy.Finally, in my oppion, sympathy is a very preciou emotion that everybody should have. Sometime it makes the same sense as love.Also, if a person can act with sympath, he or she must be a kind person.I think people can born with sympathy, but can't born with empathy. Because empathy should combine with experience.However, empathy is also a great emotion that we should have.
ReplyDelete---By Jane Wang