FOODE DAABO
Posted at 16:33h, 31 January REPLY
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Empathy
3 replies on “Empathy”
What a vulnerable state of being it is to be both empathetic and a reader. We’re leaving ourselves, according to you, and let ourselves be apart of someone else. Can you think of examples where this happens and it leads to a wholer self? OR where it leads to a better world? Or perhaps, a time where this kind of vulnerability can be dangerous?
Letting oneself be part of some else can be dangerous sometimes like in the case of a registered nurse taking care of a patient in pain. The nurse if so empathetic may not perform the care that would help the patient to recover quickly, and the patient may stay in the hospital longer than necessary.
True– sometimes too much emotion can get in the way of fact checking and solution finding.
Writing and empathy are similar in such a way that they both lead you to a situation in which you connect your thoughts, sensations, and emotions to someone’s, in order to understand the person’s feelings. Both writing and empathy enable us to experience and feel part of the whole. In writing and empathy, we leave ourselves and enter another, to put words to their thoughts, sensations, and emotions. They both put us in a position where we reason, share, and adopt the perspective and the emotional state of another person.