Sympathy?

Sympathy, as a familiar feeling, I think not only exists in human, obviously in the world of animal. Even a cat or a dog will show the pity to its host, who by chance hurts himself. However, what should we define such normal expression remains various solutions. Here is the one comes from Webster - 'an affinity, association, or relationship between persons or things wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the other'. And from another eminent dictionary, Cambridge, it says that 'an expression of understanding and care for someone else's suffering'.

In my opinion, such emotion expression reflects the attitude of people who has such feeling to others or things. To some extent, the former one is superior to the latter or the things might arouse indignity. In China, a high developing country, with lots of opportunities and disasters, under such undeveloped law system and concept. There are thousands of actualities of deceiving social welfare funding in hospital, taking people experiment on some hypothesis theories or expensive facilities, administrator bribe or assassination of public servants on TV or newspaper. While reading such reports, people usually feel sympathy of the victims and rage of black sheep in our society or sigh for the existing circumstances. What can we do? Nothing, but sympathy. Maybe encountering such choices might depress many people. Probably that is the reason of forming misanthropy.

However I remind words from a movie – though we can no change the current situation, we can change our life. Especially on a bus or train, observing lots of college students voluntarily yielding their seats to children or elders makes me gratifying. May lots of elders complain the moral and physical conditions; I truly find more such behaviors, but also the same with mendicants, on buses, streets. You might see them everywhere. Even many people choose it as a career, making use of people’s sympathy. Even people really with physical deficiency, need they choose the life of beggar? On one way, media appraise handicapped struggling with the heavy stress; on the other way, healthiness people wander on streets begging for sympathy. Such strong comparison might make you ponder whether they really need your sympathy and the result of giving such feeling though in the way of money.

Maybe every one need to find out the definition of sympathy by themselves to decide the right time right place to give out such precious feeling. And even facing such things you can help or do anything, try to change the life around. Every tiny efforts will arouse the beauty of this society and make it better.