As banal as it sounds, its true. To empathize is a lot easier than actually going through a situation. I know a person who went through a rough patch and her way of dealing with it was to shut off from the world. Other people criticized, that as much as we empathize and know its hard and tough, this is not the way to react! I thought but would I have reacted differently? maybe yes/maybe not. But I respect that individual's decision. And in the end well we all survive dont we? if we want to live we will endure it, we have no choice. But only the person going through it knows the real pain. Just to say that it depends on how you see things, or its not as bad as it seems and so on and so forth is not totally right. But the fact is our thought-process changes when we are actually going through the same situation. It might seem to you as an impractical way of dealing with hardship or pretty stupid that the person is getting so religious/senti or supersitious.
As much as you want to consider yourself practical and strong, no one can share the pain small or big, but you have to acknowledge to yourself that perhaps if you were actually, actually going through it, you would have also reacted the same way!
The reason I pen this down to re-iterate to myself is cos I reacted to a situation recently by criticizing as well, and realized its not quite right...
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