[Eng-Esp] Empathic beings, human beings || Seres empáticos, seres humanos

If there is something special that characterizes us human beings is the fact that we have the ability to feel with others, that is, to empathize with them, to share in some way their feelings and emotions.

It is noteworthy that it is not a simple sympathy, which leads us to feel pleasure in being and sharing with someone, but it goes beyond that, even when someone is not sympathetic or is simply a stranger, there we also have the opportunity to practice empathy.

The reason for this is that empathy has as its foundation that other human capacity to abstract and separate things and go to the essential. Let me explain with an example: it is one thing for someone to be unpleasant to me, but it is quite another for me to be able to understand him or her. This is possible because empathy leads me to put myself in the other person's situation.

However, it is not true that it is easy to be empathetic with everyone, it is necessary to create the habit. It is also true that we will have more capacity to practice empathy if we have gone through a similar situation.

However, despite all the considerations we can make, I have been reflecting on 3 attitudes that can help us and that I want to share today, these are:

• Humility. Let us never say "I will never drink from this water" because there are many things in life that are out of our hands, and there are always possibilities that perhaps we do not see feasible now but not impossible.

For example, someone who is going through a crisis (economic, family, psychological, etc.) And believe that we will never go through that. Hopefully, but this mental block prevents us from taking that step to put ourselves in someone else's place and try to understand them.

• Stop being victims. Sometimes we think that we have the biggest problems of humanity, that everyone is against us, that there is no one who has a greater suffering than ours.

The reality is that we all have problems, they are part of life and everyone lives them differently, because our stories and personalities are different.

• Listening. We all believe that we listen to each other but the truth is that many times we only hear without paying attention to those who are talking to us. For this reason, I always try to look at the person's eyes and expressions if they are telling me something serious and delicate, because we should also pay attention to the body language.

Many problems of coexistence would be solved if we would listen to each other more, without prejudices, just trying to understand what the others want to say and express.

Thank you very much for having accompanied me in the reading of this post, wishing you always the best and that we can meet again in the next publication, I say goodbye, see you later.