So I was thinking, how does it feel to be you?

Asked by Pazza (3268) October 4th, 2012

Sometimes I stop and think;

how did my 2 year old daughter feel when the man she thought was her dad walked in when she hadn’t see him for so long only to find it wasn’t her dad?

how does my brother-in-law feel with the notion that he will always have to live with his bi-polar, and the thought that it will eventually get worse?

how does the enemy child feel to lose family and friends on a daily basis because of a foreign invader?

how does the soldier feel to watch his brothers and sisters dying not really knowing what they are dying for?

how do the parents of the recently abducted child feel, not knowing if they’ll ever see their child again?

how does the man who just lost his job with the gun pointed at his head feel?

how does the man who just lost his job with the gun pointed at his bosses head feel?

how does his boss feel?

how does the peaceful protester feel to have pepper spray sprayed in their eyes?

how does the man feel who has just been tased?

how does the officer who on a routine stop feel looking down the barrel of the person of interests gun?

how did my brother feel knowing that this trip to the hospital was his last?

how did mum and dad feel watching the life in him slowly diminishing until his heart finally stopped?

how did they feel watching the finality of the coffin being slowly lowered into the ground?

how do the parents of a child that grows up into a fully fledged sociopath feel knowing what their child is capable of?

how does the sociopath feel to not feel?

how does the child who’s being bullied feel?

how does the bully feel?

how does the Muslim feel to be told his faith is irrational?

how does the faithful person feel to be told their deity is a sociopath?

how does the villager feel when the foreign corporation comes along and says “move! that’s my land!”

how does the loving husband feel knowing that at some point he will have the thought ‘if I’d have known she was going to end up with altzeimers, I would never have married her”?

how does his wife feel knowing that some day she will forget she loves him?

sometimes I stop and think,

how would you feel?

sometimes I stop and think,

maybe I think too much,

and sometimes I stop and think,

if only we stopped to think more often the world might be a better place…........

So I was thinking how does it feel to be you?
Do you ever stop and think how other people feel?
(I’m sure you do).
If so, what thoughts did you come up with?
How did that feeling of empathy affect you?