Someone Else's Shoes
Can we really ever know what someone else is feeling? With the sum total of our life experiences being so totally different how can we possibly understand what someone else goes through?
Not to say that there aren't certain fundamental life experiences that most of us undergo and we all have a common understanding based on the basic human experience. But the individual events, the little things that make up someone's life...these things aren't universal.
So how do we have pity, compassion, understanding for others when we really can't appreciate what led them to this point?
I don't really have an answer, just looking for one.