Practice empathy promote equality

I saw those words at the end of a video about what not say to wheel chair uses. But it's a message we could all use in our daily lives.

Empathy is a tricky quality to add to your lives. It's that fine line between sympathy and not becoming condescending. They actually run courses on it if you work in sales. So you can see its often used as tool rather than a human quality. But true Empathy comes from the heart, it's the ability to be able to see and address a person as a human equal without any focus or distraction to any difference. It means you are talking soul to soul without noticing the shell. It's a case of look but don't see, the physical that is. The sentence "oh but I don't see....." May sound the best empathic sentence when in fact it is the most patronising and over privileged sentence known to man. This way a point highlighted to me, the mean fact a person feels the need to use such a sentence takes any empathy and turns into at best sympathy and worse undermining patronising falseness.

Empathy isn't something you can say or even sell, it is something you project. Despite the endless courses I have attended to teach me how to use it to close a sale, it's utter rubbish as it's something that can't be used in any pitch. It's constructed from repeating daily actions. From your eye contact in the street saying good morning, to inviting friends to a match. It's only when we are truly empathic that we are truly promoting equality. But it's hard for us to practise as we on an average are privileged and by that alone it creates a mental barrier. Only when we realise what our privilege is can we learn to overcome such a mental divide and become a whole human without prejudice.