People often confuse the words empathy and sympathy. Empathy means ‘the ability to understand and share the feelings of another’ (as in both authors have the skill to make you feel empathy with their heroines), whereas sympathy means ‘feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune’ (as in they had great sympathy for the flood victims)
Source
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/empathy
Hope you’ll find some empathy purpose in these two posts.
To be continued on my blog.
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Nice! I think it is especially important to remember to have empathy with the state the world is in. We need to remember that we are all human.
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Thank you💕
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Agree
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