EMPATHY?
Empathy: A Silent Awakening
Sometimes, life comes to a still point.
In that stillness, you begin to search — for a thought, a feeling, an echo…
And in that silence, a question arises:
Is empathy merely the awakening of a feeling? Is it only that?
Perhaps empathy is not just a feeling we recognize —
but a hidden emotion within us, one we've never truly known.
Maybe it sleeps inside, waiting to be awakened, not by understanding,
but by the desire to see.
To seek the answer is not enough.
Because questions don’t wake what sleeps.
Only seeing through another's eyes might.
Empathy is the ability to look through someone else’s eyes.
Not just to see,
but to fall into their gaze —
to become momentarily lost in their feelings.
But if you could choose…
Would you want to see life through the eyes of someone joyful,
or someone in pain?
The instinctive answer is clear:
“Through the joyful.”
Yet that answer is incomplete.
Because those who have never suffered
rarely understand the value of joy.
They do not know gratitude.
When you look through the eyes of the one who suffers,
you learn what it means to be grateful.
And only then does empathy become more than a feeling —
it becomes a silent awakening.
This is not a call. It is a whisper.
A soundless voice inside you that says:
“Empathy happens not in time or place,
but in a moment that never truly exists.”
There is no final punctuation.
But still, pause. And look.
Right here —
in the space that doesn’t exist —
build your empathy.
Maybe a feeling long forgotten in someone else
will finally awaken in you.
E.G.
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