Empathy is a series of stop motion/ After Effect animations which stimulate our sympathy towards various senses.
Inspired by myself experience - I feel very uncomfortable and sensitive when seeing people getting injured or upset, as if I were that person. That is called "empathy".
The English word empathy is derived from the Greek word εμπάθεια (empatheia, meaning "physical affection or passion"). This, in turn, comes from εν (en, "in, at") and πάθος (pathos, "passion" or "suffering").
Empathy has many different definitions that encompass a broad range of emotional states, including caring for other people and having a desire to help them; experiencing emotions that match another person's emotions; discerning what another person is thinking or feeling; and making less distinct the differences between the self and the other.
It also is the ability to feel and share another person's emotions. Some believe that empathy involves the ability to match another's emotions, while others believe that empathy involves being tenderhearted toward another person.
- Wikipedia
Sympathy (from the Greek words syn "together" and pathos "feeling" which means "fellow-feeling") is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another life form. This empathic concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint, from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need. - Wikipedia
We feel pain when seeing others hurt, we yawn as people next to you yawned. Human are living in "fellow-feeling", no one is isolated.
12/2015
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