People have tried explaining it to me before and I never really understood the difference. I’m hoping a simple explanation will help.
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I simply put it that a feeling of sympathy has more focus on the “sympathetic” one. I think sympathy often it is just used a mechanism for someone to manipulate a false feeling to get what the desire. Yes, those feelings of compassion and sympathy for the person in distress are genuine, but I believe they are more directed inwards, often to comfort the sympathetic one.
I kinda compare empathy to method acting. I try to incorporate empathy as much as I can and that starts with understand the persons emotions. You never will understand them, but listening to a friend explain their emotions will ultimately make them feel better, in some way or another. That’s empathy. Literally thinking of yourself as that person. How would you feel? Try to look at it as unbiased as possible.
I think empathy is the most powerful force on the planet. I hate to say that we need much, much more of it.
This is just my understanding of it. There’s probably flaws or whatever, but it makes sense to me 🙂 hope it helped an be and empath (lmao)
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