Saturday 30 April 2022Everyone needs to have empathy. Sometimes humans are capable of acting selfishly, individualistically, and behaving cruelly. But remember, we are also social creatures who need other people to survive.
Well, one way to build social relationships is through empathy. This can help a person understand the other person's feelings so they can respond appropriately to the situation. This attitude must be shown in everyday life, including at school.
Understanding empathy
Empathy is a person's ability to imagine or imagine the feelings of others. Examples of empathy are listening to other people's words and knowing people who are speaking the truth. Empathy is a good attitude that exists in humans.
Positive attitudes that exist in humans are honest, open to oneself, friendly, and caring for others. In everyday life, this positive attitude helps a person to establish social relationships. Empathy helps a person to put oneself in another person's shoes.
How to create empathy
Empathy in children should be taught from an early age. The goal is that they have good character, morals, and noble character. Empathy for others can be realized by:
Sensitivity to other people's feelings.
Imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.
Practice sacrificing something that is personal property.
Making other people happy.
This attitude must be practiced from time to time, including at school. A student's empathetic attitude can be manifested in the form of:
Visiting and comforting friends who are sick.
When a friend's parent dies, we share the sorrow and loss, and then try to comfort the friend.
Lend stationery to friends who don't have them.
When students with special needs have difficulty in learning, other students help their friends by explaining using everyday language that is easy to understand.
Feel happy when friends get good news. Sharing sustenance to the people around, especially those in need.
That's how empathy grows in a child or a student. In essence, this sense of empathy will grow if the environment in which they live is also full of people with a great sense of empathy as well.
Lead image from unsplash
