Recent developments of a family nature have exposed me to a foreign experience, until now: the depth of hostility expressed and anxiety imposed upon an ailing, dying Father by his only and seemingly heartless Son.
What has materialized from this experience is clarity, from my perspective, of the true meaning of Empathy.
Empathy: what the non-suffering need feel for the suffering.
In the broader scope of human experience: it is the sufferance of the suffering for the non-suffering to suffer to realize the true meaning of Empathy.
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