3. COMPASSION ON THE CREW

 3. COMPASSION ON THE CREW

(To have the real concern and care for the people around the self)

1. Knowing Limitations

Strength to Enjoy Things:

A person might be very intelligent, highly qualified, holding the highest position, and possessing the greatest prosperity, but if the person is not able to enjoy things because of the lack of strength, it will be a cruel thing. Everyone whether a person is rich or poor, prince or pauper, needs something that is required to be a fully functional human being. So, everyone should acknowledge one another and contribute towards one another, having compassion towards the needy, irrespective of what they are.

Life is full of uncertainties:

All the people have their interests and desires, which will be suppressed because of other's influence, traditions, or circumstances. Many people hold on to the simple things of life and they don’t value the worthy things. The people just despise valuable things, just for something temporary and uncertain. Everyone should know the limitations and uncertainties around us and we should help others to realize them.

Need of Goodness:

Some people have everything that is needed and all the strength that is needed to enjoy it. Some people enjoy everything they desire and they don’t tame their passions and desires which would lead to destruction or a sense of displease after some point in time. Everyone needs certain standards and goodness to appreciate and acknowledge ourselves.

Necessity of Satisfaction:

Everything a person does need not be satisfactory, and a person who seems to be enjoying his life with possessions or pleasures, need not be enjoying it always. A person who has the right values and the right attitude alone always enjoys his life and is satisfactory all the time. Satisfaction is the key to happiness in many things we do every day and every time.

Acquiring Knowledge:

No one could ever say that they knew everything and there is nothing new that they want to know. The world is always changing with innovations and improvements of things and acquiring knowledge every day, at least in the areas of interests or involvement is essential, to be effective. Also clarifying the ignorant people around us is essential for the overall development and progress in certain things.

 

2. Looking around

Being Patient with Wrongdoers:

It is very hard to digest and accept the wrong people, especially when it does something wrong to us directly. Most of the time we are negligent towards people when they do some wrong to others and sometimes only we react when the wrong involves some serious physical attack on others. On the other side, we need to analyze the facts about why the person is violent or does some wrong and find the cause for the inclination. Then we would be able to be patient even with the wrongdoers, for their wellbeing and correction that would correct many more issues that could occur later.

Being open to accept failures:

The natural tendency of everyone is to defend the self, even if there is a mistake on the side of the self. It closes our minds to look at the scope for positive changes and the attitude of learning from mistakes. It is important to be open to accept failures, when there are points of falling or deviation, to learn from them, and proceed better the next time. It adds credibility to the character, even if there is no mistake by something that has gone wrong, which is the responsibility of the self, and that is good to take care of it and correct it, which helps to be better. 

Adapting to tough situations:

The pits and falls are always a part of life. Those that happen in certain situations of life unexpectedly would be very tough to handle. Still, it is important to face it with courage and strength and not get distressed by it. Adapting to different tough situations of life would help to learn a tremendous amount of things and it would prepare us to tackle anything with politeness and calmness patiently.

Wishing the Wellness of all:

Most of the time, it is difficult to segregate and do something by considering every aspect of it. But it is important to recheck during the progress of life, whatever we do really is a part of a bigger plan, which brings a positive change or a negative change. Doing certain things that impact people negatively would be a disaster and the person who does it could not cherish the person when it is looked back. Everything that we do, small or big, ensure wellness, and wishing the wellness of all is much needed.

 

Activity:

Let the participants be divided into groups of 5-8 members. Each shall hold hands together in a ring, turning inside and facing one another. Everyone in the group should turn outside, without leaving the hands of one another. If they leave the hands of one another in the process, they have to begin from the start.

 

3. Empathize

Understand the needs of others:

The survival of any species on earth depends on certain essentialities called Needs. The satisfactory accomplishment of the needs makes a person feel worthy and valuable. Everyone has some kind of need, irrespective of their being. It is important to understand the needs of others and help them to attain satisfaction and joy in life.

Providing nourishment for starving:

Starving needn’t be essentially because of drought or lack of favorable situations in an environment, but it could be also due to the lack of responsibility of someone or the inability of the self. Everyone would have come across the point of starving towards something that is much needed, at some point in time, for some reason. We need to provide nourishment for the people in need, who are really in need.

Giving the needed Guidance:

Certain people have the strength to take care of the self but lack the needed support and guidance for utilizing the potential themselves. Understanding the needs of the people and providing nourishment is essential but at the same time, helping the people to take care of their own needs by themselves by giving them guidance and support is long-running and sustaining. 

 

Activity:

All the participants shall write a very difficult task for a person, who is among them, to be caught or embarrassed. They shall only write the task and think the name of the person to whom it should be given. After it is written a few of the voluntary participants are called out to the front and they are asked to do the task themselves which they had written on the paper.

 

4. Be Concerned

Not doing evil to another:

Everyone should not just be self-oriented but should consider others in everything that they do, to live with joy, peace, and harmony with one another. It is essential for everyone not to do evil unto others knowingly or unknowingly, at any cost for selfish reasons, even if the other person is not right.  

Putting the Hatred aside:

There can be a lot of rationalizations for not helping or supporting someone, but the primary reason is hatred towards something or someone because of the experiences and exposures. Hatred covers the eyes of a person to look at the wellness of the other person or the correction of the person, and it forbids a person to be beneficial to others.

Abiding in the Love:

Love covers all the evils and it will surely help everyone to be without hard feelings over others, even if the other person is not worthy to receive it. Abiding in Love helps to accept the other person, even if the person is wrong and it pursues the correction of another person. Love is patient and it takes an interest in the welfare of others.

Stretching the Hands to Help:

No one can be genuine in the welfare of the other person, without stretching out the helping hands. Everyone should contribute to the other person who is in utmost need, by giving what is their best, even if there is very little earning. The Words are important but the actions should go in line with the words, which is most appreciated.

Genuineness of the Heart:

A person may offer much material and may seem to be kind to everyone who sees him, but if the person has some hidden thoughts behind it and if the person is not genuine in his service, it will not be satisfactory to him, and he will lose his character before others, at a certain point in time. The Genuineness of the heart helps to be truthful to the self as well as others.

 

5. Start doing something simple

Giving from what is in hand:

The compassion towards the least of the people cannot be stopped just with words that are smooth and gracious, but there needs to be necessary action. It is not possible to act upon everything in which there is a need, but it is always possible to act upon something from the things we have in our hands. We have to practice giving to others in need with something that is in our hands.

Giving from what is known:

There could be also times when there would be nothing in the hand for us to give to others who are in need, but there would surely be something that is known by everyone that would be useful for someone else who doesn’t know it. So, there is always a scope for everyone to support what is known to them, though there is nothing in the hand. 

Giving everything for a Good: 

It might not be possible to nourish everyone with what we have and what we know. But we will be always useful when we are ready to give everything for good. When we know that some initiative would surely benefit the other person positively, we shall contribute by ourselves as far as we can, as well as involve others to give everything that is needed for that good.

 

Activity:

Let the participants be divided into groups of 5-8 members. They shall be given some materials (Like Straw, Papers, cardboard, Colours, tape, etc.) to make an infrastructure in 15 minutes that would help the people around them.