empathy.

Empathy. Empathy. Empathy.

A word that has been drilled into me since August 4th and it is as if everywhere I go, I receive constant reminders to evolve into a better empathetic citizen. Granted, this is difficult. It is hard to be empathetic when you, yourself, are not in a state of mind where you care about others. This happens. It happens to me far more than I would like to admit and far more than I wish it did. But I take some comfort in being aware of my own fallacy. I take comfort in knowing that the attempt is there.

After all, humanity is precisely like a human body and taking our empathy into account, when one part of our body suffers and is in pain, the entire body is uncomfortable. I can only hope that more and more become aware of pain and become a part of the healing process.