I know what you are going through
Can human beings empathize with one another? When someone tells you that they know how you are feeling or what you are going through, is that an accurate statement? We all go through emotions but we all do not experience them on the same level. I guess we have been trained what emotions to expect from people when they hear the unexpected. If someone gets a promotion, we expect them to be elated. If someone is having a baby we expect them to be ecstatic. When someone loses a loved one we expect them to cry. But what happens when people do not react to the news like how you were trained to think they should. Would you tell me them to stop expressing themselves because it is not how they should behave? Lets say the person who got a promotion threw a fit because they could not handle something so amazing happening to them; the parents to be started crying because a baby was not apart of their plans, or the grieving person punches the wall. Would you look away? Or would you be intrigued to why they are experiencing that news in the manner that they are? Do we really possess the ability to feel for another human being? Or are we just feeling the way we would feel? Is that really the ability to empathize or are we just thinking about ourselves? Sometimes the best thing you can tell someone is
I have no idea what you are going through, I cannot even imagine how you are feeling. Food for thought
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