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Saturday, February 11, 2006

Empathy

Empathy is the recognition and understanding of the states of mind, beliefs, desires, and particularly, emotions of others. It is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes", or experiencing the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself; a sort of emotional resonance.

Sometimes....
Sometimes empathy is not a good thing. We have to be able to control it. Happiness of other people is juts that, it's someone else's. We have to find our own happiness, for our own good.


4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree

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February 11, 2006 9:40 PM  

Blogger stephanie said...

ethel! Come back to Canada!! We miss you :)

How are you doing anyway!!??

February 13, 2006 11:03 AM  

Blogger Ethel said...

Stephanie, if I don't come to Canada, I promise I will visit you in Africa ;D

I MISS YOU TOO

February 15, 2006 9:00 AM  

Blogger Astilicious said...

I agree.

And you know what? sometimes its a woman that emphatise. They're the one who makes the compromise, who understands, who make the sacrifices, even makes the excuse for their man. And what happens? the woman is not really happy - she is happy but with condition..because she is accepting less than she actually deserves.

So too much empathy can be dangerous at times, because it will blind you, you see what you believe, and you accept less than you deserve. I learnt that the hard way. Thus I agree that we have to be able to control how much we empathise, to find happiness for ourselves.

Asti

March 05, 2006 10:56 PM  

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