What does it mean to be a kind person? Do we show weakness, sympathizing with another? What is the power: in the hardness of character or in openness and sensitivity?
Until now, sometimes I hear the once popular phrase that “good should be with fists”. I wonder how it might look? This line is from the poem by Stanislav Kunyaev, but he did not come up with it himself: it was offered to him and other students of the Literary Institute as a topic for the exercise by the author of the famous Grenada, poet Mikhail Svetlov. And it is no coincidence that she took root like this: apparently, she answered public moods. It was 1959, softness was associated with spinelessness, and fists with decisiveness.
Another slogan from the same row – “Pity humiliates
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a person” – attribute to Maxim Gorky, although he actually said this, but his hero, the drunken cartoon Satin. And a little differently: “We must respect a person! Do not regret … not humiliate him with pity “. The play “At the bottom” was released in 1902, then it was put and filmed many times.
For some reason, respect was forgotten about respect, but about humiliating pity. At the same time, the fact that another pity was forgotten at the same time – the ability to notice someone else’s pain, compassion, support. The one that enters the concept of “good” and does not allow us to pounce on another even when we are completely sure that it is wrong.
We were deceived: getting acquaintance with fists, Loy ceases to be himself. Who cares that “so that the wool flew with clocks from all who climbs good,” as they say in the same poem, this is clearly not until helping neighbor.
… once I had grief – a close person died. And I was struck by how few people who at least called me with the words of sympathy. It was very sad – to remain almost completely solitude, with experiences that have no one to share with. But it seemed that there were so many friends and acquaintances around! Were they afraid to humiliate me with their pity? Or from a long non -exposure, they atrophied the ability to express sympathy?