Empathy is difficult.

It might be the most difficult thing that there is.

And the irony is, that it seems easy.

Whenever someone learns the concept of empathy, they seem to think ‘What’s difficult about that? Of course, I can understand what the other person is feeling.’

But when you go deeper, when you actually start feeling how someone else is feeling, it changes things, it changes you.

Even more ironic is that the most difficult person to empathise with is ourselves. Our present self rarely empathises with our future self or even our past self.

A bit of empathy can help us in becoming more compassionate towards ourselves and that will help us in taking better decisions.

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