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We understand by empathizing that act by which a person feels empathy for other. Empathy can be described as a feeling that makes someone feel the same as another person despite not going through the same situation; Empathy allows someone to feel close to the pain or suffering of another person because they are fond of them, or simply because of a matter of ethics and emotion human that makes even one can feel anguish when seeing another person suffer.

When we talk about empathy or the act of empathizing, we are referring to a very common situation that every being has ever felt and what he can feel about another human being as well as, for example, some animal. Empathy is one of the most important characteristics of the human being because through it two unique elements are combined that are usually separated: reason and feeling. This is so since in order to feel empathy one obviously needs emotion and feeling, sensitivity, but on the other hand, you also need to be aware and understand at a logical level that the other person is suffering or going through a situation of pain. This possibility of becoming aware of what the other suffers is what allows us in a natural way to understand or at least get closer to their pain.

As with everything, there are cases in which people are not able to feel empathy and this has to do with the education or the way they have been raised. Usually, a person who does not feel empathy can be described as an extremely rational, hard and cold person to whom feelings of the others do not do any kind of attraction. However, empathy is a natural element and spontaneous of the human being, for which those people who do not feel it must have gone through conflictive situations in which they did not receive empathy before their people. For many specialists, not being able to empathize with another also speaks of a personality very narcissistic that makes the individual unable to stop think yourself and never put yourself in the place of the other or bring your feelings or emotionality closer to that of the person who suffers.