"Sympathizing with someone and their shortcomings demonstrates your own inability to believe in who they are and what they could be, thus enabling their weaknesses."
- Cole Cook -
This is a simple struggle between having sympathy for someone and feeling empathy for them.
- Sympathy - feelings of pity and sorrow for someone's misfortune.
- Empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of one another.
Do Not: Feel sorry for them. You will put yourself on a stage higher than theirs. You shall look down upon them.
Do: Understand where they are. You will offer a hand to enable them. If they accept your assistance, then they can grow and overcome their weaknesses.
Do not make excuses for them, that play is in their court. You should give them opportunities to grow and develop.
You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it. Simple provide people with the tools to succeed and allow them to produce their own victories or they can falter themselves.
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