My Life's Backpack

In my life's backpack I carry myself with compassion. I used to think at times that being compassionate to the needs of others was a hindrance and that I needed to carry my own life as I carry the lives of my friends and family. But, what I found out is that I was completely wrong in my thinking. I really recognized this after reading Mrs. Bogans Blog and what she wrote about from the book, "The Things They Carried." The part that hit home was this, "They often carried each other, the wounded and the weak." It took great compassion to do what those men did in the story.

When you are compassionate to others and when you yourself need compassion there are plenty of friends and family around to help you. On the other hand, when you neglect the compassion of others, you only lose and when you need compassion there is no one to found. You then become angry and you start hate. This is what happened to me. When I lost my compassion, that is when I lost my chance for a future of success. I wasn't able to find mental peace. 

How I began was by removing the hindrances to compassion; the anger and the hatred I was feeling. This anger I carried in my backpack had to go. I then began to realize that as long as we live in this world we are bound to encounter problems.  I had to remember to have compassion and start to see the obstacles that I thought were in my way as an opportunity to improve my mind and then I again gradually regained my compassion for others. 

The only way to be truly happy is to have compassion because the nature of a human being cherishes this above all else and is only second to love. Without compassion we can not truly love. So without one or the other we have nothing.

Since I began to carry with myself, compassion in my life's backpack, my mental state is full of purpose and nothing is going to stop me from achieving my goals. The main focus has now been about getting an education. The more educated I am the more I can help and be compassionate for others. 

My educational goals may not appear to be focused on compassion since I am going to college to obtain an Entrepreneurship Associate in Science degree. With this degree my plan is to help small business people bring back the compassion for others in the workplace, which is something that I feel has been lost along the way. Since we spend most of our daily lives in the workplace there is a strong need for the workplace to be one that makes us happy. Therefore, compassion is an essential part of running a successful business. My plan is to help others become more compassionate when it comes to their employee. Because compassion brings happiness which is an effective way to improve all of humanity.