EMPATHY SENDS STUDENTS TO PROM

bring out empathy and how empathy can give birth to human benevolence. Our experiences doesn’t only shape the kind of people that we are today, but on a more important note, it gives us a light on what others in a certain situation would feel, think, and need. As we, too, have been into the same situation before, we know how to react andifwefeelthatourfellowsneedhelp,wetendtogiveahand.

I’d also like to think that it was my empathy that kicked in when I posted that status on Facebook. Majority of my students are children of sugarcane farm workers who earn meager income and this is something I could relate to as my parents were also working in a sugarcane farm before. I knew too well that in a laborer’s home, every hundred is gold

Thus, when others provide them a single or two of what they need in the prom, their worries are reduced; and as their teacher, I am nothing but extra joyful that my students can go to prom because of the acts of kindness by other people theybarelyknow.