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The Conversation That Changed Everything: Lessons in Empathy and Growth
There comes a moment in everyone’s life that affects them to their core.
Something so shocking that you have no choice but to question everything. You begin questioning where you are currently in your own life, if you’re doing things the right way, if you’re doing enough.
It gnaws at you.
Whenever I think about this moment from this past Sunday, I feel anger, angst, and embarrassment. It woke me up to the realities of not only my choices but also the choices of others.
The Conversation That Changed Me
This conversation was with someone I am very close with.
It made me feel uncomfortable.
When the conversation started, I felt many emotions out of the gate. I felt out of place.
As we know, people tend to hide their problems. They hide them from the outside world because they’re too painful to experience and embarrassing. They’re fighting battles that no one knows about.
In public, you wouldn’t be able to tell anything is wrong — life seems grand on the surface — pure bliss and happiness. Underneath the surface, it’s anything but that. They’re living through a life crisis and you wouldn’t have any way of…
