What Does It Mean To Have Empathy?
What Does It Mean To Have Empathy? Empathy is when you care about someone else's cause. Even though they are not your causes. Empathy is caring about families being torn apart even though you have your family together. Empathy is worrying about the elderly and how they are going to choose between their medications or to eat because they don't have enough money. Even though you don't need to make that choice. Empathy is about standing with someone of another color, of another religion, with another person who chooses to love a different type of person than you do. And even though you don't know exactly what they're going through, you can empathize with them and you stand for their rights as well as your own. Empathy is having compassion for children that only get one hot meal a day, if they're lucky, when you have a refrigerator full of food and yet you keep fighting to allow them to have a free hot lunch. Empathy is wanting healthcare for all, even when you ...
