I have recently read a newspaper article about a soldier who had enlisted in the army at the age of nineteen because of all the great benefits and the fact that he had grown up around guns. After his training he was initially sent to Afghanistan and after he arrived back at home he wanted to continue his college education, but he was sent back to Afghanistan again for another mission. Later then when he was sent back again from Afghanistan, the army had told him that there was less than a five-percent chance of being sent back. After being in war twice he was being haunted by his memories. He had once again started his college education and his social life. The army had sent him another mail saying to come serve in Iraq, but he refused. After seeing people die in combat his views of war had totally changed from than when he had joined the army, he didn’t want to see his old memories come back to life. His life had become totally different from before. He had realized the true meaning of compassion. Even though, violence can twinge your body; violence can have you experience the true and real meaning of compassion.
Many people think compassion as love or feeling bad for someone, but it has a much deeper meaning to it. In the dictionary it reads “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.” To find the real meaning of compassion you have to see someone who you were very close with die right in front of you, but you have to go on. People who are or were in war would know the true meaning of compassion. People who just say that they are compassionate really aren’t that compassionate. Some murders who have been reformed would know the true meaning of compassion because they have seen lots of people that have died. Everybody does not know what it’s like to be compassionate.
Much more people are violent than compassionate. If you are compassionate, you...