Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Empathy and Sympathy

To be an empathetic person means to understand the other's feeling.
To be a sympathetic person means to care and understand the other's feeling.

One winter night at Korea, I couldn't sleep. I was warm and comfortable, but I just couldn't.
I imagined of the foods, because then I can get to sleep, and I don't know why. I guess that day was special, because even if I try to think of it, I couldn't.
But the rest of my family were sleeping in really good motion, and I was a bit scared too.
Just then, I saw my brother shivering. I was cold, of course, then I thought that he is younger than I, and he get cold easily. So I gave him my blanket, and I don't understand how did I sleep all night in that really cold weather. But, at least, I felt good.

Links: http://eqi.org/empathy.htm#Showing%20Empathy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy

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