Mother Teresa

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier"("A Quote by Mother Teresa."). This quote by Mother Teresa perfectly describes what her life was about. Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun known for spreading kindness throughout the world by working to care for the poor in the town Calcutta, India. When she was eighteen she decided to make a difference in people's lives and moved to India to help people that were sick, dying, or in poverty. Mother Teresa created an organization called the Missionaries of Charity to get more people involved in helping the less fortunate. She is a great role model because she did so many things to improve the lives of others including dedicating her life to helping people in need. Mother Teresa is a deserving hero because of her acts of selflessness, dedication, and compassion towards the poor.

Mother Teresa always put others before herself. In 1950, she founded an organization called the Missionaries of Charity, a community of people who volunteer their time to serve to those in need: "What her workers, sisters and brothers alike, give to the poor is much more than medical care. They give unconditional love to those who are shunned by the rest of the world. Mother Teresa was a practical woman with one goal in life: to serve the poor"(Parks). Mother Teresa and the people of her organization, Missionaries of Charity, did whatever they could to not only take care of the poor, but also give them pure and true love to make them feel wanted in this world. She focused on only one idea "to serve the poorest of the poor". Mother Teresa became eventually became famous because of her works with people in poverty. In 1979, she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her acts of kindness to the people in Calcutta ("Mother Teresa"). This is an inspiration because she teaches people to care more about others rather than themselves. Also, it proves that good things will come out of helping other people. Mother Teresa was generous and considerate when it came to helping others less fortunate than her.

Many people benefited from Mother Teresa's kindness because she was a hard working and dedicated human. She worked tirelessly to provide education, medical services, and nutrition to the poor people of Calcutta. To illustrate the focus of her work, Mother Teresa and the members of Missionaries of Charity, "... took the traditional vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, but they added a fourth vow--to give free service to the most abjectly poor"("Mother Teresa"). Mother Teresa and the members of the Missionaries of Charities all took these vows to dedicate their lives to the poor and to give more awareness to the people suffering. In the world, there are many humans living in terrible conditions that deserve saving. Mother Teresa worked every day to help those in need, but perhaps her greatest accomplishment was inspiring so many people to also serve the poor. Mother Teresa was so dedicated to serving the poor she left life in convent and, "She had to figure out how to live and work on the streets, without the safety and comfort of the convent. So back to Calcutta she went and found a small hovel to rent to begin her new undertaking"("Mother Teresa Biography"). Mother Teresa gave up her home and safety to be more like the poor to make them feel better and less unworthy to the help she offered. This is a significant trait because all heroes need to be able to make people happier, and Mother Teresa tried so hard to have the poor feel more like a part of society. She devoted her life to helping the suffering people and was determined to make a difference.

Mother Teresa not only served the people in poverty, she was also compassionate towards them. When Mother Teresa was young she knew what she wanted to do with her life: "She felt an inner urging to leave the convent life and work directly with the poor"("Mother Teresa"). When Mother Teresa saw the people in Calcutta and their living environment she instantly wanted to help. Mother Teresa felt something in her heart encouraging her to help people less fortunate than her, she had to leave her normal life and go help them. Mother Teresa worked for most of her life caring for the poor and she never got tired of it: "Though frail and bent, with numerous ailments, she always returned to her work, to those who received her compassionate care for more than 50 years"("Mother Teresa Biography"). When Mother Teresa was old and weak she still felt the same way as she did in the beginning of her life, she wanted to care for the poor. Mother Teresa treated the impoverished people of Calcutta like they were part of her family. She was always kind and caring towards them and never gave the impression that they were any less of human beings than she was. Being compassionate is a great heroic trait to have because the ability to feel what other people are feeling helps them be more at ease. A true hero understands and connects with the situation their peers are going through. Mother Teresa was a compassionate person who thought of other people's feelings and tried to help them.

Mother Teresa was a generous, wholehearted, and sympathetic person making her a wonderful example of a hero. She dedicated her life to caring for the poor and never made them feel unwanted. She always approached someone with an open mind and open heart. Mother Teresa was spreading kindness wherever she went, and she didn't care if she was spreading it to whom people think are useless to humanity, she just wanted them to be happy. Also, Missionaries of Charity is still thriving today and doing the great work she started. She is great inspiration because of her infinitive amount goodness and benevolence. Mother Teresa once said, "Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat"("Mother Teresa | Architect of Peace."). She means that being loved is what people want. It's when the poor felt unwanted in this world, and it seems like no one cared about them, Mother Teresa helped them. She not only took care of them when they were sick or fed them when they were hungry, she gave them what they wanted the most, unconditional love, and that's all that matters.

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