By Melanie Love SalazarWeb Content Contributor Growing up, empathy was not a term I heard much about. This led me to enter my teenaged high school years absent of knowing the importance of attempting to understand situations from another person’s point of view. As you can imagine, it could have been a crucial tool to me around that time to help me navigate healthy friendships and to get along with […]
By Timia CobbWeb Content Contributor It feels good to be understood. Basic people understand that when someone is upset, it’s best to try to make them feel better, to be sympathetic. Although, showing sympathy is the complete opposite of trying to understand someone and why they could possibly be upset. Sympathy is feeling bad about someone else's misfortune situation. To be sympathetic, someone feels sad, but they aren’t able to […]
By Dedrion Weweh Blog Content Contributor There is something exciting about reconnecting with old friends, having sparks fly with a romantic interest, or spending quality time with family. The thrills and sometimes perils of interacting with others is often a rollercoaster experience in life. What all of these interactions have in common is that they are interpersonal. Human beings thrive and depend on interpersonal interactions thus making our involvement with […]
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