Voices of the Children
Human Compassion Is Like a Butterfly
Human compassion is like a butterfly. It has the power to brighten up someone’s day, a child’s face...and human compassion actually brightens up the very future of mankind.
Human compassion is like a butterfly for several reasons. It is like a butterfly because if you capture a butterfly in your hands, imprisoning it in the dark, it loses some of its beauty – for the beauty of a butterfly is seeing it soaring through the sky, and if it is kept captive form the eyes of other people, its miraculous beauty is ripped away. Human compassion is like a butterfly because it should not be shared grudgingly or without sincerity. If you simply shove a butterfly in someone else’s face, its fragile wings are bound to break. Human compassion must be shared carefully and with authenticity, otherwise, it means nothing.
Human compassion is like a butterfly because of the feeling you get when a butterfly lands on your shoulder, like the feeling you get when somebody bends over to help you with that mess of pencils rolling around all over the floor. It’s when you know, in that moment, that there’s something that is bright and beautiful that can be shared – but also underappreciated, something that holds hope for the world, and something that’s power should never be underestimated. But perhaps the best, most inspirational feeling of all is when you hold your hands up to the sky and watch that butterfly take wing in the sky, knowing that someone else will look up and see those stained-glass wings and have the same rush as they notice it fluttering by them. It’s that feeling that people underestimate far too often.
Human compassion is like a butterfly because, while near the ground, a butterfly can easily be controlled and captured in a net by those who don’t appreciate it fully, but when it flies high enough, it is out of our reach, but still visible. And finally, human compassion is like a butterfly because, like there are thousands of species of butterfly, there are countless ways to perform acts of human compassion, countless acts that should not be underestimated, for in the fault that holds care, love, and human compassion, there also lies the key to the future of the human race.