(306 words) Formation and formation of character is impossible without life obstacles, mental and physical tests. You don’t learn from friends̆ and parents̆ how you act in certain spontaneous situations, you don’t hear at lectures at the university how you feel about people around you, you don’t subtract your world outlook on the forums. It is one’s own suffering and labor that makes a person kinder. Kindness is that noble character trait that assumes a person's ability to enter the position of another and offer selfless help. But you can only get into the situation̆, understand and feel only after experiencing similar adversities.
For example, A.I. Solzhenitsyn, subject to incessant exile and all kinds of persecution in the difficult years of the post-revolutionary changes of the USSR, was eventually expelled from his native country. He created and sponsored aid funds for persecuted political prisoners and their families for royalties from his works̆. After all, he and his family felt the cruelty of the political regime! They understood what it means to be eternal nomads, deprived of a home, the Fatherland and the possibility of a peaceful "settled" life.
In addition, an example is the genuine compassionate attitude of Sonya Marmeladovă to Rodion Raskolnikov from the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky's “Crime and Punishment”. Crossing the line of generally accepted social norms, being a victim of life circumstances, only Sonia was able to fully understand Rodion’s suffering, to penetrate them, because she knows what it means to be a vicious and rejected person in the eyes of society. The girl had to support her family, working "on a yellow ticket", so the killer turned to her, he was able to open his soul to her, knowing that a person with such a biography would understand and would not condemn his fall. Kindness of Sonya, based on life experience, helped the hero cleanse his soul and repent for his sin.
Own difficulties make a person more sensitive. Under their burden, truly good character traits are revealed: compassion and compassion. Such people are able to fully understand and help. One who possesses these noble qualities "listed in the Red Book" will be a man, in his best literary definition, at all times.
