Be empathetic, you never know what the other person is going through!
Everyone has a battle to fight, much, much different than the others. Only when you realize, recognize, and respect the struggles of the other person, only then can someone understand you and how you feel!
Everybody is different, everybody has a different sense of understanding, portrayal, and depiction of thoughts, ideas, and feelings. You can never understand what the other person is going through until they vent it out to you. It is just like the sea, you know that it is calm from the outside but is a wreck from within. You never know what havoc might be created in the depths and what it might cause.
I once had a friend, who I was very close to and he was extremely dear to me. After a bad day at work, when I was extremely burdened with tasks, I received a call from him. Things were good, a normal chit-chat session in which I interacted less because of being drained off. I was irritated and vented out the day's gush on him. I felt guilty and realized how badly I snapped when all he did was call.
Beeeeep!
The call cut…
I tried to call back but he never responded. A few days later I got to know that he had lost his sister to cancer. My world had shattered, I felt numb and couldn't gather myself to react to that situation.
He called me because he trusted me, and I was emotionally unavailable, just because I had one or two extra tasks!
It felt horrible, and certainly heart-wrenching, how selfish and self-centric I could be.
I wasn't empathetic, I was surrounded by my worldly affairs and chores, which leaked my idea of reality. I failed to understand what my friend was going through and just couldn't be there when he needed me the most. I failed as a friend and lost one, only because I couldn't understand!
It has been years to that day, but that guilt of not being understanding and not being empathetic still bites my soul to the core.
It has left me with the learnings of being compassionate and empathetic.
Listening before you speak and not venting out something on someone who doesn't deserve that…
Empathy is the greatest virtue that one can bestow on others. It's the matter of the heart and soul which makes you empathetic and it is empathy which makes you rich, emotionally, mentally, and physically!
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