Wichita, Kansas
Teacher: Angie Etheredge
People Needing People
by Cliff Kissling
9th grade
Bishop
Carroll High School
Wichita,
Kansas
Teacher:
Angie Etheredge
People
Needing People
by
Cliff Kissling
9th
grade
“No
man is an island, entire of itself...any man’s death diminishes me, because I
am involved in mankind” said John Donne.
I think that the quote by John Donne is correct.
I think that friendship can cause pain but overall friendship is our
community, and without a community, one would be an island all by their self.
That is why I think Donne’s quote is correct, because man can not
survive without interacting with other people.
People needing people is what I believe the purpose of communities is.
I believe community is a group of people, large or small, that interact
in some way. We can interact daily
or hardly ever, but we are still a community if some type of love or affection
is shown. We feel our community
when that love or affection is felt. We
can feel that in many different ways at many different times, but in order to
ever feel community we have to give the love back.
If we do not give the love back, it will stop coming and we will feel
pain. The only way friendship
causes pain is when the friendship dies, usually caused by lack of love.
Lack of love is often caused by some type of separation.
Separation can be when one member of the friendship moves away or dies;
it can also be if one of the members does not involve himself in the friendship. Communities that just about everyone has some involvement in
are: world, national, local,
family, ancestors, and friends. A
community that is unique to me is the Knights of the Holy Queen.
We
feel our world community in many ways that we can not necessarily feel, but they
are there. I feel the world
community and the national community at basically the same time.
My brother is over in Iraq. I
feel a national pride, and I feel a national love from that because I know that
people are willing to go over to Iraq and fight for me to be able to live in
this great nation. The war itself
helps me feel the world’s love because I know that it is not only our country
fighting, but it is many countries united and fighting to help us all.
Without those men fighting for us overseas, one's life would be rough.
Love
from the local community is not often felt, but can be a very strong love.
A specific example of love from a community is when someone special in
the community dies. We all unite
and show love to the family and do our best to help them cope with the loss.
They need to feel our love because they lost a large amount of love.
We show love to them and they will show it back to us.
The
love of my family is felt everyday. I
feel it when I wake up in a warm house, and I have food to eat and brothers to
play with. The love from my extended family is felt less often, but is
still felt. I feel it mostly around
the holidays, that is when we typically get together as one big family.
I also feel love from certain members of my family when they come to
watch my soccer games and give me gifts. The
love of the family is probably the strongest of all the loves.
Families will and can go through everything and they will still be a
family, no matter what. My family
is the thing I am closest to and without them my life would be very different
and difficult.
I
am not able to see the love from my ancestors, but I am able to know it is
there. I know it is there because I
am here right now. Without my
ancestors, I would not be the person I am now.
I would not look like I do, and I would not act in the same ways.
I think the love from ancestors is a very special and strong love because
without my ancestors I would never had a chance to live my life.
The
love from my friends is a special kind of love.
If we are true friends, the kind I will be talking about, then the love
is lasting and able to go through many obstacles.
My friends are the people that I can tell things to, and they will not
judge me right away and they will accept just about anything I tell them.
They are the people that I have fun with and they know how to
A
community that I specially feel is the Knights of the Holy Queen.
I feel the love from this large group of men when I go to Mass with them,
and the fact that we are all Catholic. I
would be able to be Catholic and go to Mass without these people, but when I go
with them they keep me in line, and I keep them in line.
The Knights help push each other to be reverent at Mass and to be
Catholic out loud.
Overall,
people can need people in many different ways.
Communities are able to quench that need for people that we all crave.
I think that everyone, at some point, feels a need for a person.
That need might also be for Christ because he is in all of us.
If one wants to be an island, they can do it quite easily, but they will
not be happy and they will be far from Christ.