Suffering of Being Human

Nguyen Du once wrote inFuneral oration for all living beingsA sentence that I remember every July:"e;Alas for all living beings!…"e;A call to open the heart with compassion. Not choosing who to pity. Not categorizing who to save. Simply seeing that in this life, there are too many lives lost, too many destinies abandoned. And in his words, I clearly hear the sigh of a nation that has weathered sto...