Of Empathy

The one most important human trait that is needed most for humanity to live a peaceful life is Empathy.
It is perhaps lot more easier to sympathise with a fellow human being, or feel for others. But it is indeed very difficult to "feel with others" and to place oneself in another person's shoes.

Yet most of the conflicts between individuals, groups,countries occur due to the lack of Empathy with our fellow human beings. Although Humanity have scaled new heights of material success and scientific advancement, Human beings have not been able to bring about such ethical and Psychological capabilities to feel "with" others. Few Great Men and women like Florence Nightingale,Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa were only extraordinary exceptions.

In an ideal world, if a husband could feel with a wife a wife with a husband,Parents with children and the Children with Parents the world would be a wonderful place to live in.In our day to day life most of us are carried away by our emotions and we tend to forget the compulsions of the other side. Even great men sometimes falter.

A little EMPATHY for other Nations can change history.But Nation States may have to compromise a lot in terms of power,prestige and even territorial integrity if they have to empathise with other Nation's problems. Business-people would lose valuable business in a cut-throat world of free market economy if they empathise with others.

But human beings being human beings, can always try to practise Empathy. If other animals can be sympathetic to others, Mankind the best of the creatures on earth can also practise EMPATHY. That will of course require rigorous moral discipline and belief in oneself as a superior creation inheriting the Earth.

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