Empathy

 Today Ive been thinking about empathy especially in America right now.

I don't necessarily think people in general lack it, I just think people misunderstand how to relate to it.

It seems to me that when we develop empathy we go through stages where initially we are told that "You wouldn't like this to happen to you so you shouldn't do that to someone else" and we can logically deduce this idea. Then this later leads into this way of thinking of "This is sad, how would this affect me/ how DOES this affect me?" as if we are the main character of our and everyone else's life and that's not how it should work.

Not to say this warped idea of empathy is BAD when the alternative is a world of uncaring sociopaths, but we need to come to an understanding as a society that the world does not in fact revolve around us but that doesn't mean we cant understand and connect with other people. 

This concept of a Me-centric world needs to be reevaluated by everyone and we as a country need to move away from this incessant persecution complex where we see anyone with a differing idea as an adversary.

Jesus Christ famously said "He who is not with me is against me" and I feel like we've taken this idea too strongly to heart. We are not Jesus by far