Empathy: Lets All Try To Have It Rather Than Want It!

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Ever thought, what keeps a human being blind throughout their life? It is selfishness. Selfishness is simply means lacking concern for others. We were taught in our value education classes the basic values one should have. The first session was about helping others. It just feels so good. The positivity gets reflected in our soul. Spreading light to the other side, one should be selfish to look after oneself. Selfishness to some extend, brings success. But this comes under the first categorization of selfishness, called good selfishness, which is harmless. Never be so self-centred,that you don’t even listen to other people. But here, I talk about the antonym of selfishness, called empathy, which means “feeling into”.
So, empathy is basically the ability to understand other people’s feeling emotionally. Basic concept of empathy is that you see things from their point of you and imagine yourself in that place. Substantially you put yourself in someone else’s background of emotions. Empathy is often confused with the word sympathy. Sympathy is considered the synonym of empathy by most folks. Sympathy is only a shared ...
... feeling. Thus empathy is a stronger emotion than sympathy. To avoid confusion, empathy is considered as head and sympathy as heart.

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