OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY

Valenzuela City • Quezon City • Antipolo City • Cabanatuan • Pampanga

Veritas et Misericordia
Name: ___________________________________________
Macaranas, Crystal G. Date: __________________
12/04/2022
Program: BSMLS
_________________________________________ Section: MEDTECH
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1-YA-11

Session 15 : Broadening Compassion

MODULE ACTIVITIES

A. ESSAY WRITING. Answer the following questions truthfully.

1. Tell a personal experience in which you think you showed compassion for yourself.

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Since I am so selfless and have a tendency to put other people's feelings before my own, I can't

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remember of any instances in which I have been sympathetic toward myself. I may not feel sorry

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for myself because of how my parents raised me; I always received proper care, they always

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make sure to provide my needs as well as my wants sometimes. I am contented now, I sincerely

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hope that I never will reach that point.

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2. Do you always feel compassionate for others? In what ways?

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Almost always, whenever I saw folks on the sidewalks or those who just happened to beg for
money next to me in a jeep, those who were affected by calamity, etc. I always felt sympathetic
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toward them. When I was in high school, I used to commute and take a jeepney on my way home
from class. There is a man who is blind in one eye who is constantly waiting for passengers to
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tip him. I always give him any extra change I have in my pocket until I left my hometown for
college.
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Back then, we (high school friends) used to get together and join an organization called SYC.
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Through it, we volunteered every Saturday in a church that ran an outreach program for the
locals. With the help of our sponsors (Jollibee, Water Stations, the government, etc.), we ran
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seminars for adults, taught young kids the fundamentals of reading and writing, made games,
and of course provided lunches and snacks.

My high school friends and I have been doing something we call "Give Love" every year since
we were in high school. Instead of exchanging expensive presents at Christmas, we always make
packed meals that we give to a few homeless individuals. I was fortunate to be around by people
of this kind who share my compassion toward others.
 3. Share one instance which you think you failed to show compassion to your brethren. What did you do?

What do you plan to do to correct that mistake?

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One of my cousins recently had an emergency operation to remove his gallbladder. Since it was

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an emergency, they do not have any funds to pay the hospital bill. I really do want to help, but

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that time, I was also out of money because I paid my tuition fee and I also paid half of our

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household bills. I really felt bad about it, I realized that I should try to save now, because we

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don’t know when there will be another emergency. Good thing, he understood and still thank

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me because my parents help him to pay his bills.

B. PICTURE ANALYSIS. What can you do to help these people around you?

These are the people I always encounter outside. I

often give food to them as much as possible and

few coins if I ran out of money, I wish I was

wealthy enough to help them start a new life.

My family always make sure to buy few

sampaguitas whenever we go to churches,

because it was the only way to help these people.

You will notice that they are really striving to live,

we all know that selling these items wouldn’t

provide enough food on their tables, but they still

tried.
I have a soft heart towards people with disability

because my father is also one of them, my dad

was a former president of a PWD association in

our city. I often join him whenever they conducted

a program for them that way, I can extend help.

As what I have said above, I really felt the need to

help people with disabilities, I make sure to treat

them right, because they are also human, we

need to show respect to these people as well, and

that’s what I always do aside from joining my

father to some programs for them.

You know I have soft heart as well to those people

in jail, because most of them are not bad, few are

innocent just like one of our family friends. His son

was convicted to the crime he didn’t do, he was

accused of murder, it’s not my story to tell but all

the evidence during the hearings failed to prove

that he is guilty of that crime, but we know how our

justice system works. I had this one time when his

mother invited me and my aunt to visit him inside,

we prepared foods for his co-inmates. I can’t

believe their situation is beyond humane, imagine

 being lock up in a small cell with 70 other inmates,

it was pitiful, I hope that I could go back there

again to provide help or just feed some of them.

CLOSURE

Journal Writing: To be compassionate means…

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to be sympathetic to what other people feels, to be able to acknowledge and recognize their

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struggles in life. You know it is not about the material things or monetary gifts, most of them

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just need an ear to listen, a hand to help them, they just need someone to validate their feelings.