02/06/20: Sympathy in everyday life

Sympathy sits in all of us but I’ve never sat back and tried to examine why do I feel sympathy and whether or not I should sympathize for others or not. Children are always a sympathy trigger for majority of the society and so usually if you want emotions out of someone you talk about a child or on a commercial if you use the sadness of the children in the commercial then you start to feel sympathetic and usually the commercial wanted to trigger that inside of you and knew by using children it can have you react that way. Whether you are receiving sympathy or giving can be beneficial because it then makes an interaction with one another with emotions involved. Depending on the circumstance can also determine what kind of sympathy we would be using considering some are going to be more genuine with others an that also goes hand in and with the connection that we are going to able to have with the other person because if we are giving sympathy to a stranger it wouldn’t be if we were giving sympathy to a family member. Sympathy also to me is involved with pride because in some situation someone might not want to be open to someone and actually be willing too talk to them or sympathize with someone but rather just want to give someone sympathy but not wanting it to be the one on the receiving end due to the “power” of it .