Sunday, August 6, 2006

sympathy or empathy

In a peaceful little red dot called Singapore,we haven't experience a real war yet.So whenever we watched news of the bringings of war or natural disaster, most of us would sympathise them n make the "tsk tsk tsk" sound(tat's wat my dad always do when watching news).It's very easy to sympathise with them rather than empathise with their situation.As a result, if being given a choice of donating money to war-stricken children and volunteering to help them,most of us would chose thhe former, including myself.Empathy involves caring people and really love them for who they truly are.It's not just a quality that is alredy there when we were born. But it has to be nurtured and slowly build up by changing our habits.Perhaps for example,if someone in your project group have not met the deadline that you have set, dun scream at him 1st,rather ask him y hav he not met the deadline.But i tink we can only do that if we start to love the ppl around us.tat's y this is a heart matter not just merely a "quality"


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