Empathy Goes a Long Way

Understanding someone is hard enough, but to extend empathy to someone else is quite a tremendous quality to practice.

Empathizing is actually sharing the feelings someone else has which means you are therefore experiencing the same circumstances as someone or perhaps have experienced the same circumstances in the past. All of which contribute to having a connection (in a way) to the person that has the situation.

To share feelings with someone is quite powerful. You put yourself in their shoes, as much as anyone really can, right? Can we really know what someone experiences and/or feels? Impossible isn't it? "Walk a mile in someone else's shoes" it's been said. But even if you did, can you experience that process like that person did? Can you feel what that person felt, exactly as they felt it? I'd probably think it impossible.

Though each of us have a distinct journey, what a wonderful attempt to try and bridge our own journey to someone else's when we practice empathy. It's the closest we can get to really knowing another's hardship, joys, questions, etc. More so than understanding someone, may this serve us all as a reminder to empathise with one another more often than not. At minimum, doesn't it make for a better world as a result?

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