After reading Mysterious Connections That Link Us Together by Azar Nafisi. I realize that Azar really believes in empathy, which means like as a feeling. The capability to share and understand another's emotions and feelings. It is characterized as the ability to "put put oneself into anothers shoes." Azar has been through many things in his life time that he wants to have other people realize how it feels.
Another saying I think Azar is saying how some people really need to see how it is in other peoples shoes. How much pain he has gone through in his country, as far as seeing "children left or phaned in Darfur, or a women taken to a football stadium in Kabul and shot to death because she is improperly dressed". They talk about those certian people about whats wrong with them and they dont realize what they have to go through in life. So thats why that person needs to see how it feels and get into their shoes for a week. Just like me, in the past I have had some kids make fun of me because I wasn't able to hear good at all. With my hearing aids on, yeah I can hear really good, but with them off I cant hear a single thing. I wish they could become deaf and go for a day to see what I go through because it is not easy. I believe that deaf people have to work ten times harder than hearing people especially for the ones that went to hearing schools all through their life like me. This is talking all about the emotions that people have to go through, I can connect this to chapters 2-4 in lunsford. When they talk about how emotional arguments work. By explaining how words, images, and sounds can all arouse emotions to people. They are always effecting mental part of your body. All these stories that we have been reading have been building upon these chapters.
Thats what my thought is about this story, how whenever someone makes fun or talks about another person about their life. He wants that person to see how life is for them by walking in their shoes. People really need to stop doing that because it is really none of their business, I actually feel bad about the people that this happens to. By getting mocked on everyday on how, they look, dress and etc.
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It is sad that people would mock others instead of introducing themselves. We would have much less problems if we did that.
ReplyDeleteNafsi is a 'she' just FYI
ReplyDeleteEmpathy works both ways - You can tell who cares and who doesn't by how they empathize with people who are struggling.
I understand how you feel. I agree with you, johanna, it would be much easier if people would introduce themselves or merely respect them.
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