TWILLY's blog: "Others speak for me so much better"

No one had empathy for me

What is empathy?

I will make a knew definition

Empathy requires being there

Example...if you see a dog's corpse in the field with no context

You have no empathy.

It is just a dog that died in the field at some time

And it is has interrupted your nice walk

By smelling really bad & making you decide whether to call animal control to pick it up

An annoyance

No empathy

If you had been there when that dog died

Lets say it had cancer

And it was instinctually going away from the pack because it knew it was dying

And YOU knew it had cancer

STILL no empathy because you knew it was dying

But you think it is cool that it did that....selfless

You would bury it

And be sad but not too much so

Then what about if it was tortured & killed

The empathy would be there I guess

So then what is empathy?

 You can only have Empathy if you were there