this is my five minutes at sajha:(how compasionate can i get?) socially irresponsible: we die every few seonds...so true..first copuple of years is like a jungle safari..totally confused..by the time you set your sight on track..you're way too drained..enmotionally financially physically et al..but unlike nepal there's a miracle you can create here..if you really want to.hang in there..and you find yourself a place ..not to live..but to 'SELL" urself..if you have a good mouth and confidence you can..if you don't you drown in a bottle of budlight..So once you're grown enuf..have had negative balances in all credit cards, gfs, et al..then you learn to surf up..once surfing you need to set your sight in bigger things than a couple of gasstations/taxis/restaurants..was that the reason to study here..? NOpe.think again ..form strategies..read the war strategies..get focused get control..reach the goal.. and finally words on compassion: if brad pitt and angelina jolin can why can't i be compasiionate.. In other words unless you have what you want you can't be compassionate. For Paras and his wife..they have what they don't need already so compassion is something they wud consider as gifts rather than a resposnibiltiy...so lets not even get there..