Peace--- The Only way out

The students were recently shown a touching music video about the 9/11 disaster to truly understand the meaning of sympathy and understand how it is different from empathy. The beautiful song elevated the sense of brotherhood amongst students. The students voiced their opinion/feelings with an open heart much to the surprise of their facilitators……
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As we came to know that we have to go the IT room, various thought came in our mind as to why we were going there. But once we were in IT room, it was a twist. Ma’am suddenly showed us a video of "He aint heavy he is my brother" . But the video shown to us made us feel really very emphatic for those who suffered from the attack. We saw that during the 9/11 attack family members and non-family members were helping each other. Fire fighters played the most important role. They did not care for their own lives, instead they thought of the people who were in need. At that point of time religion, caste, race etc did not have any effect on the minds of the fire fighters. This is a perfect example of empathy and also the fact that brotherhood is not yet extinct. As spoken in the first line of the poem, "he aint heavy, he is my brother, means that the people were not a burden for anyone at that time. During the attack people were in grief and tears were rolling down from their eyes. The crash of 9/11 attack just took a second but the impact was just unimaginable

Ashu Goel
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Humans have always shown a feeling of sympathy whenever a disaster or a sad thing happens. The event of 9/11 attack took away lives of thousands of people with it. The sufferings were sympathised by many people, but it was the firefighters, the rescue operation workers and the volunteers helping in the rescue work who showed empathy not sympathy. They were helping selflessly and they did not care who they were helping. They just helped anybody who was in need. The line of the song, "he aint heavy he is my brother" correctly expresses the feeling of the people who were working tirelessly in the rescue operations.

Tizil Saini