Friday, June 13, 2008
Chapter 16 wk 2 blog
In chapter 16, the concept I chose was is empathy. I felt that this was an important concept because it's dealing with helping others and understanding another persons feelings. It's about adopting and understanding the person holding the conversations' problems and emotions that he or she feels. It's definitely different from sympathy because that term is about feeling sorry for another person. Empathy is about providing feedback (negative or positive), to help the other person. It's meaningful to me because I feel that a lot of my friends always come to me when they want to talk about something because I just listen, simple as that. I try to understand the situation and provide any advise that they need. I try to show my friends that I understand dwhere they are coming from and share the same reaction becasue I always stand by my friends. I provide them with advise. I believe that this concept is truly important for everyone to have, know, and understand because to me, it helps maintain and build a strong, trustworthy relationship with whomever it is.
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Hi,
Your opinion about how empathy is good to maintain a strong and trustworthy relationship is absolutely right.
I believe that one should have a good understanding of each other by having the empathy in the relationship. This is a good way to give out as well as taking in.
My friends also come to me with their problems and I always listen, and whenever they need advise I always give them an honest advice. However, I must admit that I am a better listener than telling about my problems.
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