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jaishankar @Shivram59 (50185) • India 9 Nov

Everytime someone in my family, has fever or some other problem, I take them to the doctor to get them checked up. My family doctor appointed a young girl as nurse. The nurse saw me bringing my family members to the...

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Friendship multiplies joy and divides sadness

Huong Nguyenthu @Huongp (316) • Vietnam 7 Aug 20

There have ever been great shocks, horrible accidents that seem to take away our live and bright future. But many times deep in that misery is still the intense desire to live of humans as well as animals. Especially when you have...

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The Insanity Defense In The American Legal System

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3450) • United States 2 Feb 20

In the American legal system, insanity is considered a viable defense for a criminal. However, I am wary of insanity defenses, it's likely that many criminals are in fact perfectly sane, and just want courts to go easy on them, so...

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Do young people have sympathy for old persons?

Robin Pathan @Entrygrand (25) 21 Sep 19

The other day, I saw an aged person being maltreated and abused by a youngster. I am under the impression that youngsters hardly admire the old people. This is not positive or affirmative news for the society. Young people should...

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Is smiling a sign of stupidity?

Wise Ghost @WiseGhots (14603) 19 Feb 19

If you like to smile a lot, you better read this... A survey conducted by Kuba Krys of the Polish Academy of Sciences has revealed that, in fact, in some countries the act of smiling has nothing to...

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My Aunt's Wake is This Evening!

MsExquisite @MsExquisite (338) • Winston Salem, North Carolina 8 Jun 18

Good day MyLot Family! My Aunt Nancy, ((the one that died of kidney failure last week) Family Wake is his evening and her Funeral is tomorrow; I am on my way to Virginia now to support the family. Please keep us in your prayers!...

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They say you learn something new every day...

Katt Rocketman @PeachieMew (881) • Cleveland, Ohio 1 Feb 18

So I'm going to see if that's true. Starting now, I'm writing down something new I learned each day and sharing it with you all. Feel free to join me in my research. Today I learned that empathy and sympathy aren't the same...

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My Neighbors Felt Sorry For Me...

STOUTjodee @STOUTjodee (3670) • United States 19 Aug 17

Good afternoon fellow mylotters!! Yes, I've upgraded from my regular push lawn mower to this self propelled mower!! Our neighbors (NO, not the mother-in-law) felt sorry for me, because I'm usually the one that mows most of the 3...

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When a best friend loses a family member you can't just act normal with them.

anthony davis @lookatdesktop (27156) • Dallas, Texas 16 Jul 17

You can over do it or under do it. If you express too much sympathy to the grief stricken best friend, it can backfire. Recently I was told of a death of a brother to one of our best friends of many years and he told me "I can't...

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*Bleeding sores.

ingrid @ridingbet (66854) • Philippines 2 May 17

My sister learned that AN died in the hospital yesterday at 4:30AM not due to complications of the cervical cancer that she had, but due to the bleeding decubitus ulcers that were left untreated and cleaned by her family. It is...

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Empathy in a 3 year old

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 28 Feb 17

I'm having a bad morning. I'm so sick of being sick! I'm tired of struggling for breath, tired of not having the help I need because I'm uninsured and can't afford a specialist. So I went to my room and cried, which I do...

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The Card I got

bonnie @bunnybon7 (50970) • Holiday, Florida 25 Nov 16

All the time I try and keep my baby Coco off my mind cause I am fighting depression. But now and then I find I can't avoid it. She was my constant companion for 14 yrs. Everything I did, I considered how it would effect...

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What changes should I bring in myself so that other dont get jealous

Aditya sharma @spaceseed (2843) • India 9 Nov 16

It happened with me in my previous job that one of my peer got so much jealous of me that he made his life miserable for no visible reason. I really didnt want such things. I am a firm believer of live and let live. what if...

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Choosing Sympathy or Empathy as means of justifying life's potentiality !!!

Arindom Ghosh @arintellect007 (533) • Kolkata, India 8 Sep 16

What's your immediate reaction when you see someone asking for alms or crying for help along the roadside or in public places ? Do you pause & look at him or listen to his words or simply pass away ? Some of you might perhaps give...

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Why is empathy better in comparison to sympathy?

NoneTheWriter @sammyy (527) • India 19 Aug 16

Sympathy simply means ‘feeling sorry for others’, while empathy is defined by Adam Smith as “changing places in fancy with the sufferer”, i.e., ability to share someone else’s feelings by imagining oneself into the sufferer’s...

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where in the world do you think or what happens to you or what would you want to happen or might happen that would make you say, "EXCITING!"?

LEYEN COYOCA @EyeSky (192) 19 Jun 16

In this world of care, in this world eye care, please tell, what is it that would make you say, EXCITING?

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India gives death penalty in rarest of rare cases.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 7 Jun 16

There is a divide in the world in retaining and abolishing death sentences. India retained death sentence but in Bacchan singh v State, The Supreme court of India said death sentence can be given in rarest of rare cases. There...

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Sympathy or support?

Annie Mazumdar @Anniemaz (13) 8 Apr 16

Psoriasis is a long lasting autoimmune disease characterized by patches of abnormal skin. It occurs due to mutation and it has affected over a million people around the world at present. It has no cure! the victims suffer...

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Sociable, but not very productive!

Fleur @Fleura (34987) • United Kingdom 12 Oct 15

Today I was fully intending to get lots done, and I got off to a good start – at 7 am I was already hanging out all the washed bedding and had fed the chickens and Pup. A friend sent me a message suggesting we meet after school...

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Do you want dislike button on fb?

SHOHANA @SHOHANA (16093) • Bangladesh 3 Oct 15

Yes, i want the button since i joined facebook and finally the fb team have been decide to add a dislike button and sympathy button. what about you friends?

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