Empathy involves identifying with what someone is feeling and, additionally, actually feeling those feelings yourself.Let Your Gentleness Be Evident to All.
One night my mom made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening , my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed!
All my dad did was reach for his biscuit, smile at my Mom and ask me how my day was at school. I don’t remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that ugly burned biscuit. He ate every bite of that thing…never made a face nor uttered a word about it!
Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked biscuits burned.
He wrapped me in his arms and said, “Your Mom put in a hard day at work today and she’s real tired. And besides–a little burned biscuit never hurt anyone!”
So, please pass me a biscuit, and yes, the burned one will do just fine. Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.