Empathy is understanding. Compassion grasps empathy by the hand to walk together. Once a person has traveled a difficult road that others trod upon, she commends their triumph of overcoming all the obstacles. Her barriers may be different but still she recognizes the struggle.
Understanding includes those who have had sorrow in their lives but not the denial of rights that belong to them but not given. It’s difficult to see the other person’s hardship when it is so different from your own. Like choosing clothes for a holiday in the Caribbean when it’s snowing outside, there’s always an un-necessary sweater packed in there somewhere.
Sometimes it’s challenging but empathy, compassion and the extended hand are rewards in themselves.
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