Empathy

This morning I've seen this photo that made me think about the term Empathy. It was a
cartoonized picture of a beggar holding a mirror with one hand to hide his face and the
other hand held out as some kind of gesture to ask for money. Meanwhile, a man passes
by and looks at himself in the mirror and gives the beggar money spontaneously. This has
shown that when the man has put himself in the beggar's situation he has actually felt how
hard would it be to ask people for help and receive nothing but negligence. Empathy. But
the matter is that empathy has to be there under any circumstances, it doesn't require a
mirror to be able to see yourself in another person's place.This doesn't only apply on
beggars and poor, this applies on our daily life too. Most of us have definitely suffered
the "They won't understand" thoughts. We've been through trouble and maybe situations
that have cause us so much pain but we prefer not to ask for help or advice.And why?
Because we usually assume that people won't understand what we're going through just
because they haven't experienced it and haven't felt how tough it is. So probably any
response or advice won't be quite satisfying for us. Well that's not just an assumption,
sometime it is true as nowadays people lack empathy. It's rare to find someone who
would totally understand what we're going through and when we do, they've probably
experienced a similar situation in the past. Why not have some empathy? Think about
it, some day you might be wishing people would have some empathy when dealing
with you, so why not have empathy with people now? Start with yourself, it's never
too late to change.