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Summary Of Compassion By Kevin Myers

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Life will often put us in difficult situations and we are responsible to change our attitudes and even our ideals to cope or comprehend tough times. In his audio essay, Kevin Myers expresses his ideals of forgiving others and showing them compassion, instead of paying them with rage and anger. When we are treated unfairly and without any consideration of our situation, our first instinct is to repay those individuals with revenge but Myers opposes this and says we should show compassion. In this essay, he tells his story and how it leads him to learn the virtue of forgiveness. We see, how his mother instilled in him the ability to forgive and show compassion to those who harmed him. He states his mother told him that if he couldn’t forgive
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