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“Feel Sorry For” vs. “Empathy”
January 3, 2020
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I published this to Medium yesterday, where it was curated into the Life and Relationship topics.
“You’re just saying that because you feel sorry for me.”
“You just [action] because you feel sorry for me.”
“She [did good thing] because she felt sorry for me.”
I’ve heard several variations of this phrase.
Today, I want to share what I think “feel sorry for” means and its close relationship to empathy, sympathy and pity, which share roots.
Do you share the emotions of another?
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When someone said to me recently, “You just feel sorry for me,” I answered, “No, I empathize. I don’t feel sorry for you.”
There’s a difference:
(Read the rest of the post here.)
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