Empathy

_{Artwork Tittle – Empath Mermaid And The Voyager. (Inspired by Mariners Apartment Complex-Lana Del Rey.)}

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I dreamt the other day. I dreamt of a world devoid of pain, people walking lightly on the grass beneath their feet, and nature requiting by casting its soft caressing breezes our way.

I realise it is rather naive to think of a world devoid of pain. No amount of love and hope we muster can transform the world alone.

Empathy is the ultimate healing we need.

Like a physical wound needs a band-aid, an emotional wound needs empathy. Empathy dives deep into a person’s wound, decoding it. Understanding from your own experience/trying to understand another’s circumstances is the first step to being an empath.  Many of us are empaths or at least capable of empathising. However, most of us don’t realise it because tragically it’s not a skill we were/are  taught in schools.

We all get by with a little help from each other.

Empathy is a superpower and even that is an understatement. Empathising with a person enhances a person’s resilience. You cannot take away a person’s pain neither do you have to dwell on it but you can help a person’s ability to cope with it.  (This isn’t by any means a medical advice.)

Empathy doesn’t just include compassion towards others but compassion towards the self as well.

Be a friend to yourself. Be self aware, embrace yourself as a whole, work on self improvement, and accept things beyond your control. Sometimes, being an empath can feel overwhelming. Practicing empathy doesn’t mean you always have to be kind, patient, and ideal. Humans have a range of emotions. But learning to guide them is one of our greatest virtue. It’s easy to be deluded about the whats and the hows of empathy when being taught how to live as an empath is nearly non-existent in the society. It’s a skill that most of us can acquire and a skill that can be amplified. 

If we teach children empathy as religiously as we indoctrinate them maybe then we can dream of a better world. Fostering empathy will bring the change we are all desperately in need of and hopefully the generation of empaths will revolutionise the world into a better one.

-Vaishnavi Talkar

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Like a physical wound needs a band-aid, an emotional wound needs empathy.

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