Introduction to empathy
Empathy in its simplest form means 'the ability to put yourself in someones place and feel as they would'. It is different from Sympathy even though both are used collectively most of the time. 'Sympathy' is the act of showing pity on someone or feeling sorry for someone's misfortunes. It is loving someone from a distance. An act of sympathy is more like asserting the fact that 'I am doing you a favor'. Its more of a societal compulsion. You can count it under acceptable manners I guess like how relatives come to console you after there's been a death in the family. Forced and entirely useless social construct where people genuinely don't know what to say to make the family feel better as nothing can be changed. Sympathy is more like imposing yourself externally in order to help someone but 'empathy' is holding someones hand and pulling them out of an emotional black hole. Anyway 'empathy' is more like 'I am you' (Soham ...