There is a Danish Proverb that says “A man does not look behind a door unless he has stood there himself.” What this proverb is saying is that people don’t consider others’ feelings unless they have been in a similar situation as that person. Empathy is the ability to share the feelings of others. This proverb says that humans can’t understand the feelings of another person unless they have been in the same place as that person. But that’s not true. For example, when I was in fourth grade, my class read the book Where the Red Fern Grows. When we got to the end of the book, the whole class was crying. That’s because in the book, a dog died. The whole class was not crying because because every students there has experienced the death of a