Walk a Mile

Empathy is an often underrated characteristic. Recently I was reminded of the movie “Powder”: in one scene a young man with heightened perceptual ability grabs the wrist of a hunter and touches the deer the hunter has just shot. In that moment, the hunter feels what the deer is feeling…and he is appalled. While this may be an extreme example of empathy, it is highly thought provoking. We might want to ask ourselves the following question in our interactions with others… How can we ever be diminished by considering the situation from someone else’s perspective?