What Happened to Compassion? by Paige Sumowski
What happened to compassion? I understand teenage years are selfish years, and that right now a lot of people our age are consumed by their grades or their extracurriculars or building their resume or working a job or friendships or more-than-friendships or whatever may be going on in your personal life. I get it. I do the same thing. But, at least from what I've seen, we don't have a lot of empathy for people around us. I recently heard a story that made my heart sink, my eyes tear up, and my fists clench. Someone went through something awful, something no one should have to experience. Ever. I'm not going to tell everyone reading this what it was, because it's not my story to tell, and I don't know if he would be comfortable with that. Let's just say it was incredibly dehumanizing. And it happened in this school. However, I told some people this story, people I didn't expect to react much (although I hoped they would), and people I thought woul...