Even If You Haven't Been There Can You Go There?? (16)
Perhaps not totally but sadly enough I believe we have all experienced a similar situation. Where one person may have lost a child, another may have lost a different family member. And that gives us adequate insight to show compassion and to be caring and understanding.
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Lion,
I feel the situation may no always be the same,but
is the feelings the same..some react differently..
But,we can share the simaliar feelings,losses,pains,
joy, love..I think it comes down to the feelings shared..
Chance
I feel the situation may no always be the same,but
is the feelings the same..some react differently..
But,we can share the simaliar feelings,losses,pains,
joy, love..I think it comes down to the feelings shared..
Chance
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I agree with you assetts52
I find also that even different events can have the same impact on people to a lesser or greater degree. The lessons are the same but the experience was different.
I find also that even different events can have the same impact on people to a lesser or greater degree. The lessons are the same but the experience was different.
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LOL..same wavelength Sharon..lol
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I truely believe that as much as a person would want too, or even as close of a situation as they might have been in that the other person is currently in, they cannot know, nor absolutly understand what or to the extent how the other person is really feeling. This is becuase we are all individuals that have different personallities and charaters. Becuase of that the gravity of a situation will affect everyone to a different degree and level. To understand the situation that someone else may be in I can see, but to crawl inside of someones life to understand how they feel and the severity of the effects is more than one person could bear. I would say don't walk in someone's shoes for a mile, walk the mile with the person.
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Very Intelligent answer Colorado!
But the miles you've walked yourself can help you understand better sometimes.
But the miles you've walked yourself can help you understand better sometimes.
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The miles traveled by different people may equal in distance but the terain the go through tell an altogether different story with the path they follow.
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thanks for the complement, by the way
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"Empathy" the word that you are describing, is a valuable word in dealing with people from all walks of life...I deal with homeless people on a daily basis, most choose to be homeless, but I like to hear their stories. I could never be a judgemental person cause all of us are a paycheck away from being homeless, unless of course you can fall back on Mommy and Daddy!
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I have to agree that a person can genuinely empathize with another, can try to put themselves in that position, but will never totally be able to experience what they are feeling unless they too have been in that circumstance. You can only feel another's pain, when you know that pain yourself.
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I didn't think this moment would happen,........., but your dead on the money with that statement I'll agree "I could never be a judgemental person cause all of us are a paycheck away from being homeless, unless of course you can fall back on Mommy and Daddy!" very insightful, good show ole man.
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It's amazing, the homeless,they don't care about cell phones cause who they gonna call, they don't miss T.V. cause you only miss what your around all the time(I haven't watched more than 1 hr. of T.V.since becoming a member of CS) They roll their own cigarettes and most don't take anything if you offer it to them. I appreciate it everytime that I take a hot shower...they wait in long lines at Loaves and Fishes to take one. They stress out over where they are going to get their next meal not how can I survive w/o my cell phone cause my battery died. Sometimes I can help but envy them, no credit card bills, car payment,or house payment...
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As a child, I watched the gypsies over in Paris, France....I told Mom I want to be a gypsy when I grow up....she wanted to know why....I said because they are so free and happy w/their lives...I was only nine and could observe that....
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worlds apart
we sit here behind monitors
roofs above us
coffee brewing
a refrigerator in the kitchen
a kitchen!
and there
15 million
do you fathom that number?????
starving in tents as far as the eye can see....
mine are blinded by the tears
we sit here behind monitors
roofs above us
coffee brewing
a refrigerator in the kitchen
a kitchen!
and there
15 million
do you fathom that number?????
starving in tents as far as the eye can see....
mine are blinded by the tears
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In the same sense, Plenty of homeless people living in alleys in cardboard boxes and under bridges in this country too.
I do think we sometimes take things for granted in this world that we don't realize how good we have it compared to someone else. Our conditions are normal to us and their conditions are normal to them I would think.
I doubt the people living in tents really miss the fact that they don't have a coffee maker or a computer....but when we have to "rough it" we get all bent out of shape.
How many "freak out" if their computer takes a crap?..lol
I do think we sometimes take things for granted in this world that we don't realize how good we have it compared to someone else. Our conditions are normal to us and their conditions are normal to them I would think.
I doubt the people living in tents really miss the fact that they don't have a coffee maker or a computer....but when we have to "rough it" we get all bent out of shape.
How many "freak out" if their computer takes a crap?..lol
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Do you think anyone who hasn't been in a given situation can have any merit at totally understanding something they have never experienced?