Emotions

     Can you teach empathy; I feel that empathy can and cannot be taught to a person. Some can

debate that you are born with it and then other says you learn it while going through experiences in

life. I think that young adults who are sheltered in there upbringing have a hard time understanding

how a person feels and copes with certain situations. While adults that grew up in poverty can

understand how a person who loses a job and starts there journey into depression can relate to

them because of their life experiences. Even with websites Rootsofempathy.org you still not about

to learn how to have compassion towards others that you interact with.

     With all the different emotions that a human can have, empathy is one of the most important

traits an individual should have. I recently watched a video about a photographer in New York going

around taking pictures of random people and having them display themselves in different

encounters from family portraits, to relationships poses, even friends taking a group picture. I found

it interesting their response to how it felt after taking such photos with people they just met. One

person talked about how at first they were nervous then was about to calm down and truly enjoy

the photo, she said it was a feeling that was there. That emotion she was talking about was

empathy, without so would have been a cold statue, unemotional. I believe that without empathy

the world would become a cold desolate place of uncaring people.