Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Empathy


Seth Godin wrote this today. I agree with most of his points and for most people this is true. He overlooks a portion of the population. There are people who are called empaths. About.com has a quick and dirty definition of this trait people can posses.

I believe I am one of these people and I am sure my mother and sister are as well.

I believe people can posses a deep sensitivity and be able to relate to the emotions of another person. I also believe like fear is universal so is pain. The same pain felt by a depressive or chronically sad person is no different than the pain felt from a sixteen year old that does not get that BMW for his/her birthday. It may not last as long but you cannot quantify pain.

that is my two cents...

2 comments:

John Lee said...

This is true pain scare us all, but after the pain is victory.

Cathy Nelson said...

Right there with ya Marc..