you were driving home from work on a
Friday in the middle of January you see
a man at the corner with cars whizzing
past he’s wearing ragged clothes torn
not enough to shield him from the cold
shivering vigorously but somehow still
holding the pen tightly in his hands why
does he stand there maybe he won’t
survive the night maybe he would get
frostbitten what brought him to that
situation maybe he was in a job until he
got in an accident maybe he was me maybe
his childhood was too harsh he might
have lost its cognitive abilities would
you feel for his situation and what he’s
going through would you feel for such
would he feel for his pain and suffering
that feeling known as empathy can lead
to kindness and harmony in the entire
world you can say hi say a couple of
words give him a meal or give him a
blanket that child a framemaker
a leather worker breathing in harmful
chemicals that girl who is forced to
carry water for her family and is unable
to go to school that soldier who lost
both his leg and his mind fighting for
his country there was that whole
generation that was lost because of the
bomb do you have a moment for them that
feeling known as empathy can lead to
kindness and compassion in the entire
world often when we come across a
situation they run through multiple
feelings such as sympathy sadness
melancholy indifference empathy and fear
the end result is determined by our
societal and world views in empathy
there is a sense of togetherness a we
together feeling a companionship through
heartfelt feelings a sense of equality
sympathy has a giver receiver aspect
there is a sense of superiority possibly
a subtle sense of superior inferior so
it is believed that
good deed out of empathy is more noble
than a deed out of sympathy now I would
like to share with you a story of three
boys in Chennai sometime ago my mom was
talking about the bravery of three kids
I got fascinated about it and read the
NDTV article on November 30th 2015
Chennai was severely flooded and 266
millimeters of rain fell in 24 hours
planes and flights and trains were
cancelled the road was the road was full
with rain water many civilians lost
their homes lost their lives in their
livelihood they climbed to the top of
tall buildings to save themselves police
army and civilians work to rescue others
Ashok autumn autumn and Arjun are
between ages 8 to 14 they look small and
lean further age there they lived on the
pavement their homes were washed away in
the flood they did not stop them from
saving more than 200 people yes these
small children saved people who were
stuck in the trendy floods they do not
know proper swimming the only experience
they had was pumping into the pond and
trying to swim but with that experience
and only having an aim to save people
they swam and swam and save those lives
they do not have proper food as normal
children do they do not have breakfast
lunch or dinner
only food time the point that touched me
the most was when the helicopters
dropped food they took the food and they
swam and swam and delivered it to the
children on the terrace they do not they
they had they had no idea of why they
did no feelings or anything of why they
were doing it they just delivered the
food they were given brick
and they were asked why they Adele read
the food to the children before they
were before they ate for themselves they
said that they were used with hunger
they didn’t the children on the
terrorists had their meals regularly
they couldn’t go for long without food
that was why they had delivered the food
first they were given bravery Awards
but the annoy idea why they had been
given they the reporters urged them to
talk about their experience but they had
nothing to say they just looked at each
other and passed the mic back their
now I would like to share a story that I
learned in the 6th grade it is called
what a fish have to do with anything by
a V and the story a little boy called
Willy has long conversations with his
mother about a man on the corner they
stayed in my llama in my mind for long
because we see these kind of prejudices
to varying degrees common among us
including in my family now a short piece
after the mother calls the police
displacing the man I couldn’t care less
but he might as well know I arranged for
him to be gone Willy stopped short what
do you mean I called the police we don’t
need a nice sense like that around here
pestering kids he wasn’t pestering me of
course he was how do you know Willy I
have eyes I can see really glitter that
his mother no you can’t you’re a fish
you live in a cave William came out of
the cave would you like to come out and
make a difference I would it is possible
to raise empathy and children learn a
new language from a friend or a
colleague know what your neighbor cooked
today watch a movie not for the
sensationalism but watch it and put
it is possible parents and teachers can
develop it in children through objective
activities now I would like to conclude
with a beautiful song with the moral
appeal that was rendered at the United
Nations on October 23rd 1966 on the
occasion of the UN day my dream bachata
akela CJ dream my dream bachata akela CJ
dream autumn / debe piranha p porchetta
hot Mahadev a piranha P porchetta you
don t ajaita spur don t ajaita you don t
ajaita spurred on ta-da-da-da-da-dah
buddy
Sh’ma thermometer Mauna Kea jata Perez
ma c’mon oh c’mon um my dream bachata
akela zj3 my dream bachata akela the
j-team Janani Plata V comma do cos t
Jenna God ever sir colada Yolo Jenna God
ever sir colada Yolo Jenna God ever sir
colada yellow da Mata Tata
diatom Janata Dal metadata diet bomb
Janata change oh boy yacht circle agenor
nam chain yo booyah circle edge anonym
tray yo boo yacht psychology no Nam
train your boy yacht so collagen Oh
nam jin your Boyett soccer legend oh no
a beautiful a beautiful song with the
moral appeal talks about empathy and
harmony it means look upon others as you
are them thank you [Applause]