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A Word We All Lack... "Empathy"



Since joining this site, I have read a lot of posts about cheating, coping with heart break bullying etc.



Usually in these cases about cheating, when a partner cheats instead of owning up to it and apologizing, the partner rather plays victim and puts the blame on the other partner using excuses such as "you didn't give me enough attention " or "we lacked something". And this baffles me to a degree. A bully is all about putting someone down to feel good.



Another thing that has come to my attention is couple's divorces and the reason is because oh "he was gay", a gay man is someone who is attracted to his own gender. Now, I understand that there are "closet" gay man who hide their sexual preferences, but I see no need to marry a woman, is it fun to play with someone's emotion knowing that you will never love them? Is it entertaining to waste someone's time and love? I thought it was only straight men who played around and hurt straight women but apparently I was wrong. I can understand dating to cover up but marriage?! That is crossing a line.



I thought to myself why do we do this to each other? Why do we hurt each other? And the answer came to me as word which many of us today have forgotten about...."empathy" not sympathy.



Feel what I feel, understand how you make me feel, we humans are capable of empathy, like when someone cries and you feel sad, or when someone yawns and you feel tired, we can...but we choose not to after all the joke is always funnier on someone else.



Without empathy, we cannot overcome all social problems in society today, racism, colourism, discrimination, terrorism, homicide. Everything seems to be going down hill...but it's not too late, we can change.



So before you insult someone for cheap laughs, marry someone not because you love them but to use them, discriminate against someone or cheat on a significant partner, think to yourself "how would I feel if someone did this to me ".


😤😤😤😤😤.



A Word We All Lack... "Empathy"
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