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Tag: empathy

  • What matters next?

    It’s the hi-tech millenia of artificial intelligence, robots and intelligent automation. Humanity is making strides in all branchs of science. Yet in our minds success is mere material, monetary and magnanimus achievements. A bigger apartment, a flashier car, the latest gadgets, another wrist watch. And the wishlist continues, like an bottomless pit.

    Kindness costs nothing

    In a world that prizes constant consumption, how about chasing kindness, empathy and companionship as goals. A world where good behaviour is embraced and warmth is the love language. How about being on a journey where everyone is valued for their existence and the uniqueness they bring to the table.

    So when did you last hear a kid being praised for being kind. In the recent past, do you recall patting your partner for being an empathetic being. Infact when did you pause to count a reconnection with a long lost friend as a personal win. Normalising humanity isn’t rocket science but this surely needs a collective recollect and reset in our over-stimulated cortex!

  • Class apart

    Empathy is as rare as common sense. If only every class could empathize with the other and be willing to put themselves in the others shoes, the world could be a more harmonious place to live. More homogenous, blurring the boundaries between the haves and have-nots. Making inter-class interactions more wholesome than a facade. Giving a chance to young couples who want families to mingle and offsprings to flourish via best of both worlds.

    But then these are idealistic thoughts, a utopia which exists only in tales. Balancing empathy with self respect is a fine task and not many are adept in it. So sadly the next generations mostly learn to sneer upon a lower class or drool upon a higher one. Either ways they shall find their footing on their own.

  • Empaths

    Empathy is quite a buzzword for leadership. Does it mean being sensitive and warm rather than uptight and cold? Would too much empathy be mistaken for meekness and indecisiveness?

    The gift of empathy tends to make one emotional but the lack of it is worse as it makes one mechanical. So make small talk, check on an ailing colleague, loop back on the favor you promised – let empathy complement your talents and skills. Afterall people matter 🙂

  • I’ll be there for you ☺️

    There are friends who laugh with you, build good times and lasting memories. & then there are friends who sense the urgency and seriousness in your tone even on a text.

    Whatever the day, time or situation at their own end, they stick it out for you. Being the listener to your woes, the agony aunt to your crying and the empathetic ear to all your rantings. But then they also snap you out of your self propagated miseries, throw a line to pull you out of your self victimization and offer contrary views to probe your mind to think differently.

    That’s your best buddy, your 3 am friend, your safe space. Cheers to them & cheers to you for having them!