Jack Hume

Empathy is feeling what another person is feeling through a common experience or understanding.  It is not just feeling pity for another person, but feeling a true pain in reflecting on what another person is going through.

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To help so empathy, we watched two commercials.  One involved a man who had "empathy" (my opinion is he was feeling sympathy) for many people and could imagine what a dog at an animal shelter was going through.  Another involved another person feeling empathy.

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Empathy allows us to connect to other human beings and helps us gain a sense of compassion and understanding of what people are going through.  Even though many o the activities in this program left me feeling like I hadn't heard anything important, empathy really is an important thing.  I will try and remember it.