The Art of Understanding
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Have you ever had problems with someone, older or any age? Have you ever felt depressed or felt like nobody understands you? If I tell you it is one of the important social issues nowadays, I believe you would be surprised. One of the main foundations of most of the global issues is not understanding each other, or lack of Empathy.
Nowadays, we are facing global warming, pollutions, wars, unfair judgements, bullying, cyberbullying and many other issues. And one of the things that causes these, is lack of Empathy. Empathy means the art of understanding each other emotionally. However, people these days don’t really understand each other and Narcissism spreads all over the world. When it happens, people get more selfish, angrier, and greedier than in the past. It means people don’t care about the consequences of doing bad things, and they only care about what they will get. As it grows larger, industry owners don’t care about nature, criminals only care about money, rich ones forget about poverty, leaders forget about citizens and many other things. On the other hand, nature gets damaged, citizens fight over money, war victims lose hope and poverty spreads wider.
We want to share with you about the medicine for all of these, Empathy. We believe all people should care about each other more than money. Money is important, but it doesn’t mean it has better value. We think each and every earthlings (people and animals) in our environments are more precious. Why is that? Because all of us have loved ones, parents, teachers, friends, families, relatives, pets and even our mother Earth. Not only that, we have the ability to feel happiness, gladness, love and many other good things. Meaning, money isn’t really important at all. Actually, our greed and anger are the ones that are preventing us from having those precious pleasures. And did you know that, the main key to open that treasure box is Empathy.
Empathy has many structures despite it’s only being about understanding each other. Adding up, all the things that create Empathy and benefits, there are mainly 4 parts (Love, Compassion, Positive Thinking, Thinking from perspectives). Love means caring about all living things in our Nature. Normally, we don’t know how to love. The love we actually call these days is attachment, not actual pure love. An example of meaningful love is wishing everybody a good day. This love is the only love that can lead to eternal happiness, while attachment love can lead to miserable conditions. So, firstly we should know pure love.
Secondly, compassion is about helping others. If we know how to love, we get our pure compassions. Most Myanmar people have smelled the benefits of compassion. Have you ever donated or helped someone who is begging on the streets? If you had, you must have felt happy about it. The happiness you get there is the result of pure Compassion. Thirdly, Positive thinking and Thinking from perspectives are important. Positive thinking means thinking about the good sides of things. When we have bad friends, we normally feel bad about it. Instead, if we only think about the good sides of them, we won’t feel angry or anything about it. And Thinking from perspectives is also important. Only having positive thinking seems like blind. For that, we need wise eyes or multiple thinking. Thinking from perspectives is a way that can tell us which is right which is wrong. Also, it is one of the keys to Empathy. Even if every earthlings only have these four structures, we are sure that our world will no longer have the issues we are facing today.
In conclusion, we all should have Empathy (Love+ Compassion+ Positive Thinking+ Thinking from perspectives). If we only have it, we will be able to create a pleasant and harmonious community for all youths and older individuals.
By Y8 Azura (Gp2)

Water Pollution & Human Health in Myanmar

How is the condition in Myanmar? What are the consequences on human health? Let's find out!!!
Have you ever been concerned about Water Pollution? Or have you ever thought about facing clean water scarcity? What if we say that the world will face water scarcity in the year 2050? It is confirmed globally by advanced scientists.
In Southeast Asia, around 40% of the rivers in Asia are located. So, most people in Myanmar are not worried about it. However, on estimation, each family uses more than 50000 L of water, producing 550 million kLs of wastewater every year in Myanmar. Although we have thousands of rivers, it doesn’t mean water is unlimited. We only get access to 0.1% of water that exists on earth. With the growth in populations, it is estimated to have a water shortage in 2050.
In addition, Water Pollution has terrible impacts on human health problems in the present time. By using polluted water, Gastrointestinal illnesses such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid fever can occur. Moreover, as it goes through the respiratory system, heart, lungs, kidney, liver and other organs can get damaged. These damages can also lead to risky cancers and even have terrible effects on the nerve system. Like the saying “small things may lead to big impacts from time to time”, Water Pollution seems like nothing but it actually has terrible impacts on our health.And as an estimation number of deaths can also rise because of waterborne diseases. Because if there is a clean water shortage, we will have to use polluted water. Meaning, these diseases will occur more in the future.
To prevent from it, we need to save water from today. We can use a two way strategy called P&P solution (Protect & Prevent). First, we need to protect the clean water we have nowadays. We have to be careful with wastes (plastics, trash, etc.). We shouldn’t just throw away trash here and there because when it rains it gets into the nearest water source (river, etc.). Secondly, we need to prevent ourselves from getting diseases. We should check whether our water is clean or not. It is recommended to use the old boiling method. For bathing and other water usage, we recommend traditional sedimentation methods, using purifying properties like sour stone. Also, if you keep water in a pot or container, don’t forget to cover it to prevent mosquitoes' births.
Myanmar hasn’t got a high rated Water Pollution but that doesn’t mean it won’t grow larger. Besides, Water Pollution is already having risky impacts on human health. Meaning, it will be worse in the future. In conclusion, we should educate people in our communities, be careful with trashing, take care of the water that we have, try to clean the water that we get access to so that future generations will not be facing terrible health issues caused by Water Pollution.
Y8 Azura (Gp-2)