What Does it Mean to be Human?

Being human is to have emotions. Being human is not just to exist on this planet but to feel compassion for others and relate to others as we would want them to relate to us. When someone in our family is hurting, we feel their hurt and their sadness. When terrible things happen to other people in the world, we try to understand what they are feeling and we pray that we never have to feel that way or go through what they are going through. I like to think that most of our emotions could be happy ones and feel good about ourselves and others around us, like our family and our friends. To be human to me is to have my own feelings and have feelings for those around me.